Buenos Aires, December 21 (NA) -- Former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is recovering favorably after undergoing surgery for appendicitis at the Otamendi Sanatorium. The procedure, performed without major complications despite her medical history, was confirmed by physician and journalist Nelson Castro.
Castro explained that the patient was admitted with severe pain, and although the medical report mentioned a "minor peritoneal compromise," the appendix was removed quickly and did not lead to generalized peritonitis.
"It's part of the double speech of Kirchnerism in everything; they talk a lot about public hospitals but always end up in elite private sanatoriums like Otamendi or Los Arcos," Castro stated.
According to the Argentine News Agency, the journalist recalled, for contrast, that Eva Perón was operated on in a public hospital in 1951 and recounted the anecdote of the "Presidential Medical Unit" created at the Argerich Hospital during Néstor Kirchner's administration—a luxury room that "was ultimately not used anymore."
"Everything that emanates from Cristina is the will to harm; it is a pathology of her personality that her own followers, like Kicillof, are now experiencing," Castro analyzed.
For the communicator, the fact that she must spend the holidays under house arrest with health requiring care marks the beginning of a cycle of loneliness where "the only contact with the outside will be the balcony," thus closing a chapter of enormous political centrality that now seems to be fading.
For Castro, this choice evidences a disconnection between the political narrative and the personal practice of former officials.
Isolation, decline, and judicial reality
In the final stretch of his reflection, Castro addressed the social isolation situation that the former head of state is going through, serving her sentence with an electronic ankle monitor.
"That is the sad reality of Cristina Kirchner," he affirmed.
He described the former president's current situation as a "golden prison" and emphasized the sparse turnout of militants at the sanatorium's entrance as an unequivocal sign of her political demise.
According to the physician, the psychological impact of the ankle monitor and her judicial situation create a scenario of "intolerable lightness" for someone who once concentrated all power.
Finally, the journalist linked this "decline" to the former president's personality, whom he defined as a conflicting figure even within her own movement.
"The people who were in front of Otamendi yesterday show absolute decline; there was no one."
"She was in very good hands, the operation was quick, and it is expected that by Monday or Tuesday she will be at home with light rest," the professional detailed in dialogue with Radio Rivadavia, who also recalled that the former president has a "florid" medical history that includes diverticular episodes and previous surgeries during her terms.
However, the technical analysis gave way to a harsh criticism of the conduct of the Kirchnerist leadership and their relationship with the health system.
