In August 2010 , Cristina Fernández began to use her Twitter account . She also preceded the 39th Mercosur summit at San Juan where the trade bloc agrees to reduce customs fees and signs a free-trade deal with Egypt On September 2010 , it was announced that Argentina was elected president of the Group of 77 China and prepared to act as a ‘ bridge " with G-20 major economies to which it also belongs Cristina Fernández visited Chile during their Bicentenary celebrations where she also assisted at the baptism of a Chilean baby , Anaís Escobar Maldonado , born in the Argentine Hospital deployed at Curico after the earthquake . The visit had a high profile in the media mainly because of the possible extradition to Chile of Sergio Apablaza . She met with president Sebastián Piñera and participated in the festivities at the national stadium . She also confirmed the celebration of the III bi-national cabinet meeting for next October . Fernández then departed for New York to give her United Nations General Assembly speech where she once again criticized Britain over the Falklands ( Malvinas ) issue , and Iran for the 1994 AMIA bombing whilst giving her support for an Israeli-Palestinian dialogue and an eventual Palestinian state . On September 30 she hosted the UNASUR presidents ' emergency summit at Buenos Aires due the Ecuador crisis and started an official visit to Germany the following day in order to participate as a Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair and meet with Chancellor Angela Merkel . In October she inaugurates the III News Agencies World Congress to be held in Bariloche . This same month , and as part of the 2006 civilian nuclear-power reactivation program , Fernández reopened the Pilcaniyeu uranium enrichment plant , put on ice in the 1990s , amid worsening shortages of natural gas . Following the death of her spouse ( see below ) , Cristina Fernández resumed activities and flew to Asia for the G20 Seoul summit . After her return she announces that the Paris Club agrees to debt talks without the International Monetary Fund intervention as proposed by Argentina since 2008 . These negotiations will result in the settlement of the last portion of the sovereign debt defaulted in the 2001 crisis after the successful restructuring debts of 2005 and 2009 . On November she also participated on the UNASUR Summit at Guyana after which will host the XX Ibero-American Summit at Mar del Plata On the morning of 27 October 2010 , her husband , former President Néstor Kirchner , died of a heart failure at the Hospital Jose Formenti in El Calafate , Santa Cruz Province . He had been subject to two coronary interventions earlier in the year ( 2010 ) . On February 7 , 2010 , he developed problems with the common carotid artery and needed surgery . On September 11 , he was intervened because of coronary artery blockage and needed an angioplasty
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Presidency of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner