Overview
- Cristina Fernández de Kirchner publicly attacked the reopened Cuadernos corruption trial during its second oral hearing, calling the process a politically driven campaign against her.
- Her posts claim a cooperating witness, ex-family accountant Víctor Manzanares, was kept in isolation under constant lighting and surveillance for roughly a month at Cavia in Palermo, based on statements by his lawyer Roberto Herrera on TN.
- She argued that the cooperating-witness regime is being abused, saying so-called arrepentidos should be considered extorted, and she labeled the alleged treatment as 'white torture'.
- Kirchner singled out federal prosecutor Carlos Stornelli as shaping the case’s narrative and using coercion; she referenced past accusations against him that were later resolved by higher courts.
- The oral trial includes dozens of defendants accused over alleged bribe collections from 2003 to 2015, and Kirchner also framed the renewed proceedings as a distraction from economic troubles, citing inflation data and criticizing foreign financial ties.