Updated
Updated · Bloomberg · Jun 2
Kirchner Fans Turn Buenos Aires Apartment Pink Palace as Ex-President Serves 6-Year House Arrest
Updated
Updated · Bloomberg · Jun 2

Kirchner Fans Turn Buenos Aires Apartment Pink Palace as Ex-President Serves 6-Year House Arrest

2 articles · Updated · Bloomberg · Jun 2
  • Saturday night, Cristina Kirchner’s white corner apartment building in Buenos Aires was lit pink and overlaid with animated classicist columns to mimic Argentina’s Casa Rosada.
  • Supporters staged the display nearly a year after Kirchner was barred for life from running for public office, symbolically bringing the presidential palace to the former president.
  • Kirchner, serving a 6-year house-arrest sentence on corruption charges, waved to backers from a Parisian-style balcony in an image echoing Eva Peron.
Can the ghost of Evita Perón fuel a political comeback for Cristina Kirchner from house arrest?
Is a convicted ex-president's balcony wave the biggest threat to Argentina's current government?