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Néstor Kirchner

1950–2010 · 20th century

Néstor Kirchner was an Argentine Peronist politician, governor of Santa Cruz province, who served as president from 2003 to 2007 after the crisis of 2001. His government restructured the defaulted debt, paid off the IMF and presided over rapid growth driven by commodity exports, and it reopened trials for the crimes of the dictatorship. His wife Cristina Fernández de Kirchner succeeded him.

Néstor Kirchner
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Néstor Kirchner. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/nestor-kirchner
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