{"id":9340,"date":"2025-03-24T11:01:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T15:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/?p=9340"},"modified":"2025-03-24T11:01:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T15:01:46","slug":"u-s-imposes-travel-ban-on-former-argentine-president-over-corruption-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/?p=9340","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Imposes Travel Ban on Former Argentine President Over Corruption Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_nbcnews-fp-1200-630,f_auto,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2025-03\/250322-Cristina-Fernandez-ch-0951-942fd2.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\"><\/p>\n<p>The State Department has banned former Argentine President Cristina Fern\u00e1ndez from entering the United States, accusing her of involvement in \u201csignificant corruption\u201d while in office.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department also banned Fern\u00e1ndez\u2019 planning minister Julio Miguel De Vido and their families.<\/p>\n<p>Kirchner and De Vido \u201cabused their positions by orchestrating and financially benefiting from multiple bribery schemes involving public works contracts, resulting in millions of dollars stolen from the Argentine government,\u201d Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement released Friday.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that multiple courts had convicted the pair on corruption charges.<\/p>\n<p>Fern\u00e1ndez has been a dominant political leader in recent years in the South American country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States will continue to promote accountability for those who abuse public power for personal gain,\u201d Rubio said. \u201cThese designations reaffirm our commitment to counter global corruption, including at the highest levels of government.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"SovrnAd Advertisement sovrn-story-feed proper-dynamic-insertion\" data-module=\"\" data-class=\"sovrn-story-feed\" data-delayadinsertion=\"\" data-ad-position=\"3\">\n<p>In November, a tribunal in Argentina&nbsp;<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/argentina-cristina-fernandez-corruption-sentence-dc8b668e3da263c18a9e84e0be8e71e0\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">upheld a six-year prison sentence<\/a><\/span>&nbsp;and a lifetime ban from holding public office against Fern\u00e1ndez.<\/p>\n<p>The former President was&nbsp;<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/caribbean-south-america-buenos-aires-argentina-17d4361a9d612a5a39fce125d8cbb20c\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">convicted and sentenced in 2022<\/a><\/span>&nbsp;by a three-judge panel for a fraud scheme that embezzled millions of dollars through public works projects during her presidency. She appealed, but the higher tribunal ratified the original ruling.<\/p>\n<p>Fern\u00e1ndez has denied all the accusations and is not in prison.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>&#8211; Published courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AP News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Department has banned former Argentine President Cristina Fern\u00e1ndez from entering the United States, accusing her of involvement in \u201csignificant corruption\u201d while in office. The State Department also banned Fern\u00e1ndez\u2019 planning minister Julio Miguel De Vido and their families. Kirchner and De Vido \u201cabused their positions by orchestrating and financially benefiting from multiple bribery&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":9341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_nbcnews-fp-1200-630,f_auto,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2025-03\/250322-Cristina-Fernandez-ch-0951-942fd2.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-polity-governance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9342,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9340\/revisions\/9342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}