{"id":35954,"date":"2019-05-23T09:19:07","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T07:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=35954"},"modified":"2019-05-23T09:19:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T07:19:07","slug":"cristina-kirchner-faces-corruption-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/cristina-kirchner-faces-corruption-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristina Kirchner Faces Corruption Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Argentina&#8217;s ex-President Kirchner faces first corruption trialCristina Kirchner, who recently announced a surprise vice-presidential bid, faces multiple corruption charges<\/p>\n<p>Natalie Alcoba reports: Buenos Aires &#8211; All eyes in Argentina will be on a courtroom in Buenos Aires on Tuesday as the first corruption trial begins against former President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, who remains one of the most polarising figures in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Days after announcing that she will run as a vice-presidential candidate in the upcoming election, Kirchner will stare down allegations that she headed up an illicit association that awarded 51 public works projects at inflated prices to a friend and businessman, Lazaro Baez, in her home province of Santa Cruz.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first of 11 court cases against Kirchner, which include allegations of bribery and coverup&#8230;.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/05\/argentina-president-christina-kirchner-faces-corruption-trial-190521131408914.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aljazeera.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_35955\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/cristina-kirchner-faces-corruption-charges\/cristina_fernandez__kirchner_775525\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment noopener wp-att-35955 noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35955\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35955\" src=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/cristina_fernandez__kirchner_775525.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/cristina_fernandez__kirchner_775525.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/cristina_fernandez__kirchner_775525-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/cristina_fernandez__kirchner_775525-413x300.jpg 413w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-35955\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">by Dragan<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argentina&#8217;s ex-President Kirchner faces first corruption trialCristina Kirchner, who recently announced a surprise vice-presidential bid, faces multiple corruption charges Natalie Alcoba reports: Buenos Aires &#8211; All eyes in Argentina will be on a courtroom in Buenos Aires on Tuesday as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/cristina-kirchner-faces-corruption-charges\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-finance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35954"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35957,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35954\/revisions\/35957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}