News of insecurity

Horror in Wilde: Ten-year-old shot dead during shootout between police, muggers

11-07-2024 16:24 Ten-year-old child Bastián Nehemías Escalante Montoya dies in hospital after being shot twice in a shootout between a plain-clothes policeman and two muggers.

CRIME & SECURITY

Homicide, robbery and petty theft on the rise in Greater Buenos Aires

15-05-2024 16:33 Since the beginning of 2024, crime has picked up in both the capital and the surrounding metropolitan area. Javier Miglino, head of NGO Defendamos Buenos Aires, highlights the most frequent offences seen in the region.

CRIME & SECURITY

Crime deterring return of South American footballers

07-05-2024 13:19 Insecurity in Latin America often discourages local football stars who want to return to their roots as they reach the end of their careers.

CRIME & SECURITY

Report reveals most unsafe cities in Argentina

28-02-2024 18:10 Rosario suffered the most crimes last year and has the highest murder rate in Argentina. Also in the ranking are two cities on the Atlantic Coast: Mar del Plata and Villa Gesell.

by Leonardo Nieva

CRIME & SECURITY

Killing of nine-year-old girl reignites debate on security

23-01-2024 18:31 Nine-year-old girl Umma Aguilera, the daughter of one of the police bodyguards of Security Minister Patricia Bullrich, shot dead on the outskirts of Buenos Aires.

CRIME & SECURITY

Organised crime in Argentina: clans, crooked cops and money-laundering

04-09-2023 07:12 In Latin American countries such as Colombia, Mexico or El Salvador, criminal organisations have nearly taken control of their territories. Argentina, on the other hand, steers clear of that kind of violence, but that does not mean those groups do not have a presence here. Clans, money-laundering and complicity.

by Sabrina Chemen

LOOTING ATTACKS

Inflation or politics? Nation hit by wave of looting

24-08-2023 17:28 Since last Friday, groups of people, sometimes dozens at a time, have forced their way into supermarkets and other stores. But who's behind the unrest?

INSECURITY

Four keys for understanding Argentina's looting outbreak

24-08-2023 14:57 Nearly 200 people arrested amid a series of robberies at supermarkets and shops across Argentina, allegedly organised by groups in working-class neighbourhoods or by nefarious political means; Unrest shines spotlight on rampant inflation, economic crisis and instability ahead of crucial election.

CRIME & SECURITY

Lanús: 11-year-old girl dies after being robbed on way to school

09-08-2023 13:23 Insecurity rises to fore in final days of campaigning for PASO primaries; 11-year-old girl dies from injuries sustained in robbery by two motorcycle thieves while walking to school.

EDITORIAL

Slaughter in La Matanza

08-04-2023 06:32 What made Daniel Barrientos’s murder such a major issue was not the bus-driver’s cruel end but the backlash to the crime wave crossing the line.

DIPLOMACY & FOREIGN POLICY

Ibero-American Summit: Leaders sign deal on LatAm food crisis, migration

26-03-2023 17:53 Leaders at Ibero-American Summit commit to fight food insecurity in Latin America, improve migration controls and negotiate more financial support for the region's struggling economies.