The decision also affects her children, who had inherited assets, deposits, and shares
14ymedio/EFE, Havana, November 21, 2025 — Argentine Justice ordered the almost total confiscation of the emblematic assets of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her children, Máximo and Florencia, to cover approximately 685 billion Argentine pesos derived from the final conviction for fraudulent administration and steering of public works contracts in the province of Santa Cruz.
The Federal Oral Court No. 2 has ordered the seizure of approximately 20 properties, primarily located in Río Gallegos and El Calafate (Patagonia, southern Argentina), which will now be under the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court for administration and subsequent public auction. The former president, sentenced in 2025 to six years in prison and permanently barred from holding public office in the Vialidad case, now faces the financial dismantling of her family’s inheritance.
The hardest blow falls on Máximo and Florencia, her children. Many of the properties now subject to seizure were already in their names, thanks to a meticulous schedule of donations and transfers made between 2006 and 2016. In that last year, Cristina transferred 50% of 26 properties to them, in addition to bank deposits and shares. That move, presented at the time as a “family” asset restructuring, is now being interpreted by the courts as part of the same criminal scheme.
All those convicted must use their assets to cover the full amount of the damages, even if those assets are held by family members or third parties, according to a mechanism known as “joint and several confiscation.” This legal mechanism allows for the seizure of the 19 properties registered in the names of Máximo and Florencia, as well as a property in Cristina’s own name, lots in El Calafate, and assets linked to the hotel business.
Visits to the Peronist leader are restricted to only twice a week, a maximum of two hours, and no more than three people per shift.
While the Supreme Court prepares to act as administrator and auctioneer of the assets that for years represented the economic power of Kirchnerism, Cristina Fernández’s daily life has been spent under house arrest since June of this year. The same Federal Oral Court 2 that signed the seizure order has just restricted visits to the Peronist leader to only twice a week, for a maximum of two hours, and with no more than three people per visit. The decision comes after a meeting with nine economists that exceeded the limits of her legal status.
The new rules do not affect her immediate family, assistants, lawyers, or healthcare personnel, but they do limit Cristina’s ability to continue operating politically from her home, which she herself renamed San José 1111 on social media. On X, the former president attributed the decision to the “media circus” and defended the meeting with economists as part of a project for “productive and federal growth for the 21st century.”
Behind the fall of the Kirchner economic empire lies a geography that extends beyond Argentina, as a significant part of the family’s recent history unfolded in Havana. Florencia Kirchner traveled to Cuba in February 2019 to participate in a screenwriting course, already a key figure in the corruption cases involving her family. Just as she was due to return to Buenos Aires, Cuban doctors forbade her from flying, diagnosing her with post-traumatic stress disorder and mild lymphedema in her legs, in addition to other health problems. Cristina herself blamed the “fierce persecution” by the justice system for her daughter’s “physical deterioration.”
Between March 2019 and March 2020, Fernández traveled to the island at least ten times to visit her daughter.
From March 14, 2019, Havana became the former president’s second political and emotional home. Between March 2019 and March 2020, she traveled to the island at least ten times to visit Florencia. Some trips were to spend the end-of-year holidays, others to welcome 2020 with her daughter, and still others combined family and political engagements, such as the presentation of her book, Sinceramente, at the Havana Book Fair in February 2020.
Meanwhile, the Argentine Justice system imposed conditions: Florencia had to appear every 15 days at the Argentine Embassy in Cuba to report on her state of health and any changes of address, a form of minimal control over a key figure in the corruption cases involving the family.
From Cuba, Cristina fostered a narrative in which the Island was presented as a medical and political refuge from an Argentine Justice system supposedly aligned with “the hegemonic media.”
The thread that connects Río Gallegos, El Calafate, and Havana is that of a power that believed it could shield itself with properties, legal privileges, and international connections, and that is now discovering that the courts can also seize deeds, accounts, and hotels. Kirchnerism insists on speaking of “persecution.” The judicial reality, however, shows the end of an impunity that, for years, traveled first class between Buenos Aires and Havana. So far, Cuban state media have avoided mentioning the seizures.
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