But having begun the week by putting the issue firmly in the spotlight, the Argentine president proceeded to ensure it remained there – on both sides of the vast Atlantic divide which a British Naval force crossed to reclaim the Falklands 29 years ago.
On Tuesday she met James Peck, who was born on the Falklands but now lives in Buenos Aires, to personally hand over an Argentine ID card after he gave up his British passport in the first case of its kind.
Speaking on the 29th anniversary of the end of the war, Mr Peck said Argentina was his children's country and "my country too now" with Argentine ministers quick to highlight the case as a potential precedent which others could follow.
On Thursday Mrs Kirchner travelled to the north east province of Misiones ahead of local elections there with reports in Argentina suggesting she has embarked on the campaign trail after a meeting with her children and aides in which it was agreed she will run for re-election.
Speaking the same day she deliberately raised the stakes by personally attacking David Cameron in vociferous terms and dismissing Britain as a "crude colonial power in decline".
Few will now give much credence to her assertion, made a few weeks ago, that she is "not dying to be president again".
And even fewer can doubt that Mrs Kirchner sees Argentina's claim to the Falklands as one of her trump cards to be further exploited in the months before polling day on October 23.
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