Public image of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Public image of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was the president of Argentina between 2007 and 2015. After her victory in the 2011 presidential elections, she claimed that the elections were a triumph of love, implying that her voters loved her. Her speeches include a large number of self-references. Kirchner is famously passionate about clothes. She wears a mixture of textures, colors, and prints, and always wears makeup and high heels. She dressed in black for the 3 years following the death of her husband, Néstor Kirchner. The acceptance of this widow image was higher among Argentine
Presidency of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner be trying to kill her, and later that there could be a conspiracy against her led by the US; Elisa Carrió dismissed such threats as mere conspiracy theories. In her speech, she accused the "vulture funds" of destabilizing the economy of the countries and called them "economic terrorists". In March 2010, Fernández de Kirchner made a historic trip to Peru to make amends, a country with whom relations had been adversely affected following the Carlos Menem administration's illegal sale of weapons to Ecuador in the 1990s. On 19 April, she was invited to the bicentenary of the independence celebrations in