Judge orders trial for Argentina ex-president
Buenos Aires (AFP) – A judge on Thursday ordered Argentina’s former president Cristina Kirchner to stand trial on charges of financial mismanagement.
It is the first of several cases against the combative 64-year-old leftist leader to go to trial.
A string of cases targeting Kirchner and her rival, current President Mauricio Macri, are clouding Argentine politics ahead of mid-term elections later this year.
Kirchner is accused of ordering the central bank to sell dollar futures at a
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