Overview
- Cristina Fernández de Kirchner remains at Sanatorio Otamendi after surgery for appendicitis with localized peritonitis, with a slow postoperative recovery and no discharge date.
- During the January recess, the Casación chamber will be staffed by Mariano Borinsky, Ángela Ledesma and Guillermo Yacobucci, with Diego Barroetaveña and Gustavo Hornos on leave and Javier Carbajo and Juan Carlos Gemignani excused.
- Her defense is appealing to expand visits, remove the electronic ankle monitor and extend terrace access after those requests were denied by the executing court, while prosecutors seek to bar terrace use.
- The Supreme Court recently rejected the ankle‑monitor challenge for lack of foundation, a decision that could narrow the scope for changes on that issue.
- Current limits allow only three visitors, up to two hours, three times a week, a restriction imposed after a crowded meeting with economists at her San José 1111 residence, and any adjustment now depends on the feria panel’s rulings.