News of forces

Ecuadorean adolescents still missing as search efforts increase

23-12-2024 20:34 President Daniel Noboa orders intensified search for four boys as public outrage grows ahead of elections. Military officials deny involvement.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Amnesty Int’l urges Milei to respect rights after year of ‘confrontation’

19-12-2024 14:18 Data compiled by rights NGO shows more than 1,100 people were injured in protest “repression” during Milei’s first year in office

by James Grainger

POLITICS

‘Las fuerzas del cielo’ – Who’s who in Milei’s new ‘praetorian guard’

23-11-2024 17:00 With presidential advisor Santiago Caputo leading operations in the shadows and Daniel ‘Gordo Dan’ Parisini as its main reference point, new organisation intends to gain ground in Buenos Aires Province and beyond ahead of 2025 midterms.

by Giselle Leclercq

CONGRESS VIOLENCE

Officials slam ‘coup’ attempt after Congress clashes

13-06-2024 15:07 President Milei, Patricia Bullrich and Manuel Adorni accuse violent demonstrators of seeking to overthrow government in a "modern coup d'état."

POLITICS

Milei reopens debate about dictatorship, Armed Forces

04-04-2024 18:51 President enrages human rights groups by questioning estimate of those disappeared by junta’s security forces and calls for “reconciliation” of the military in Argentina.

CRIME & INSECURITY

Rosario is always near

16-03-2024 06:25 As with so many other matters, Argentina’s leaders have not lived up to the challenge of efficiently combatting drug-trafficking. Yet it would be a mistake to confine the responsibility for Rosario’s bloody violence to politics.

by Javier Calvo

CRIME & SECURITY

Bullrich unveils new protocol for federal forces, relaxes rules on use of weapons

14-03-2024 11:00 Security Minister outlines new protocol for federal security forces, which will allow officers to shoot in order to prevent a criminal from escaping; "We don't want more Chocobar cases," declares Bullrich in reference to notorious 2017 incident.

CULTURE WARS

Milei government bans gender-inclusive language in military

26-02-2024 20:40 President Javier Milei's government has announced it will ban gender-inclusive language across Argentina's Armed Forces.

RELIGION & POLITICS

Milei predicts 'moral revolution' at Hanukkah ceremony in Buenos Aires

13-12-2023 11:12 New president takes part in Jewish Hanukkah festival in Buenos Aires, declaring that "light prevails over darkness" and vowing "a moral revolution" will take place in Argentina.

UNREST IN JUJUY

Accusations fly after violent clashes in Jujuy

20-06-2023 17:02 NGOs and national government slam “repression” against demonstrators in northern province of Jujuy; Opposition Governor Gerardo Morales points finger at Alberto Fernández and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner for unrest.

CLASHES OVER ROADBLOCKS

Tensions in Jujuy as demonstrators denounce ‘brutal repression’

19-06-2023 16:27 At least 40 arrests near the northern city of Purmamarca as indigenous, picketers and left-wingers demonstrate against constitutional reform limiting right to protest; Jujuy Governor Morales points finger at the national government for violence and says roadblocks will be broken up.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Venezuela's Supreme Court decriminalises homosexuality in armed forces

17-03-2023 09:51 Venezuela's Supreme Court annulls a controversial article of the military justice code that had criminalised homosexuality within the armed forces.

CRIME & SECURITY

Anti-narcotics forces deployed in Rosario as homicide numbers climb

09-03-2023 13:57 Argentina’s government sends reinforcements to combat drug-trafficking in Rosario, where more than one death per day has been registered in March.

Unrest in Peru

Peru investigating security force role in protest deaths

14-02-2023 13:41 Peruvian prosecutors investigating whether security forces were to blame for the deaths of several protesters during anti-government demonstrations in December.