Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was re-admitted to hospital and had successful surgery on 8 October 2013 to remove blood from under a membrane covering her brain. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner (; born February 19, 1953), sometimes referred to by her initials CFK, is an Argentine politician who served as President of Argentina from 2007 to 2015. She was the second woman to serve as President of Argentina, the first directly elected female president and the first woman re-elected to the office. Ideologically a Peronist and social democrat, she was a member of the Justicialist Party, with her political approach
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner dollars. The nationalization was justified by the president as government protectionism during the crisis, and compared with the bank bailouts in Europe and the United States. It was criticized as a threat to property rights and the rule of law. Fernández resigned after the Kirchnerite defeat in the 2009 elections, and was replaced by Amado Boudou, president of the ANSES which had worked for that nationalization. Although inflation was nearing 25% and on the rise, Boudou did not consider it a significant problem. In January 2010, Cristina Kirchner created the bicentennial fund employing a necessity and urgency decree in order