She had to file a complaint in court before they'd return them to her.
They seem to be trying to goad her into reacting rashly, such as saying something that can be spun into an "incitement" charge.
The goal, of course, is to jail her under any pretense. They're desperate, and are trying to emulate the Temer dictatorship in Brazil - which even so, as you know, still hasn't succeeded in shutting the door to a Lula da Silva electoral victory.
Irnoically, Kirchner herself had said numerous times she's not running. But now even lukewarm supporters are urging her to run, given the rapidly snowballing crisis.
Because while Macri and his Videla-loving goons are busy persecuting the opposition and ginning up Clarín headlines, the economic erosion Argentina's been seeing since April has turned into a full-blown collapse.
The peso fell again today by 7.5% in one day. Macri begged for (and today got) a $3 billion cash advance from the IMF, runs on banks are already being reported, and community organizers in poor districts are warning of imminent food riots.
To think that the FAO declared in 2015 that while Argentina still had its share of poverty, "zero hunger was at hand." What a difference three years makes.
Argentina, you'll recall, already went though the very thing after the Martínez de Hoz "sweet money" bubble in 1979-81, and after the Menem-de la Rúa debt bubble in the late '90s. And now this.
Bubbles pop - all the more so if stoked in bad faith, as Argentine right-wingers are prone to do.
Amid the strongest recovery since 1920, the late Néstor Kirchner relinquishes the presidential sash and baton to his wife and successor, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, in 2007.
The items were absconded this weekend by order of Macri's "napkin" judge, Claudio Bonadío, during a search on Mrs. Kirchner's home - and only returned after she filed a complaint.
The search turned up nothing. But the next day, resulted in three hospitalizations due to a "contact toxin" left in her home during the search. She's been unable to return to her residence.
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