Early life of Néstor Kirchner during the event. After the wedding, they left the city (even though Cristina had not yet graduated) and returned to Río Gallegos. Both of them established a law firm in association with a local lawyer. Máximo, their first son, was born in 1977, and Kirchner was jailed for three days with the peronist leader Rafael Flores. Early life of Néstor Kirchner Néstor Kirchner (25 February 1950 – 27 October 2010) was an Argentine politician who served as the 54th President of Argentina from 25 May 2003 until 10 December 2007. He was born in Río Gallegos, and moved to La
Presidency of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner In March 2008, Kirchner introduced a new sliding-scale taxation system for agricultural exports, effectively raising levies on soybean exports from 35% to 44% at the time of the announcement. This led to a nationwide lockout by farming associations, starting on March 12, with the aim of forcing the government to back down on the new taxation scheme. They were joined on March 25 by thousands of pot-banging demonstrators massed around the Buenos Aires Obelisk and in front of the presidential palace. Protests extended across the country. In Buenos Aires, hours after Kirchner attacked farmers for their two-week strike and "abundant"