Loan, Lanata, the Court, and the mattress dollars: Cristina Kirchner's 8 strongest statements in Corrientes

Former president and current candidate for Buenos Aires legislator for the Third Electoral Section, Cristina Kirchner, participated in a Justicialist Party event in Corrientes on Saturday afternoon. It was in Paso de los Libres, on the occasion of the launch of the candidacy for governor of that province by the city's mayor, Martín Ascúa.

There, the Peronist leader offered strong statements regarding the Supreme Court's upcoming ruling on the Highways case, which could uphold her six-year prison sentence and ban her from holding public office for life. She also spoke out regarding the plan to withdraw dollars from the mattress being promoted by Javier Milei's administration, offered a few pointed remarks about the Danilo Peña loan case, and addressed a long-standing feud with Jorge Lanata, right on Journalist's Day.

Below are Cristina Kirchner's eight best quotes from Paso de los Libres.

"I remember hearing Loan Danilo Peña's grandmother say, 'They always took the kids, but when Néstor Kirchner came and the AUH came, it stopped.' Mommy, mommy..." was her first comment about the boy who has been missing for almost a year. He reiterated this point at the end of his speech, with a local electoral message: "It's not good to live in a province where a child is stolen and the authorities want to hide everything. All Corrientes residents should want to build a better province."

"They'll never forgive me for achieving low unemployment and the highest worker participation in GDP, over fifty-fifty. Nor for the recovery of YPF or having paid the IMF. They shouldn't come here and talk about a fiscal surplus, because we had a surplus from 2003 to 2008, when the world collapsed, and we also had problems with the agricultural sector. The financial sector never recovered, anywhere in the world."

"I'm not going to play dumb, because when he elected us in 2019, with hope, we didn't live up to it. It wasn't the first time in the history of Peronism that someone came to power in the name of a collective project and then transformed it into a personal adventure; nor will it be the last . But we must, as activists, not cry over spilled milk, but reorganize."

"I announced my candidacy and all hell broke loose, with people asking from all sides to put me in jail. We shouldn't get angry; what we should do is be on the lookout for them to put me in jail."

"There are editorials that say I'm cornered and finished, but if that's so, why don't they compete with me and win electorally? 'Look how I tremble...' 'If I'm so finished...' Or as one who is no longer here [about Jorge Lanata] and who was a television star said: 'She's old, alone, and sick.' It was a long time ago and she's no longer here. No, don't whistle at it, she's no longer here. God hasn't...," said the former president, although she stopped herself at the end.

"Your problem, Milei, isn't that there's no money, it's that there are no dollars, and the ones in the mattress aren't going to give them to you."

"They better not let me enter the United States. Look at what's happening with Elon Musk, the chainsaw-wielding madman and close friend of the one we have here, the native [Milei], and Donald Trump. Thanks, Dad, look what's happening, and that's the model they want to propose to us."

"'Nobody is saved alone', we all need each other... I suppose everyone watched The Eternaut!"