News of police

Ex-cop, ex-Army officer sentenced to lengthy jail terms for 1970s crimes

01-10-2024 15:12 Néstor Ciaramella and Enrique Del Pino found guilty of kidnapping, torture, disappearances, murder, sexual abuse and other crimes committed against 185 people between 1974 and 1977, in the lead up to the military dictatorship.

CRIME & SECURITY

Police arrest seven members of ‘radical Islamic terrorist group’

18-08-2024 09:40 Security Minister Patricia Bullrich says on social media that eight Federal Police raids have "dismantled a dangerous organisation linked to a radical Islamic terrorist group"; She says "anti-Christian, anti-Jewish" group , identified after threatening a journalist of the Jewish community."

PROTESTS IN POSADAS

Police protest lifted after pay deal, two weeks of tension in Misiones ends

29-05-2024 10:40 After 13 days of tension and demonstrations in Posadas, Misiones police seal pay deal with provincial government and lift protest.

SOCIAL UNREST

Police in Misiones take to streets as pay protest intensifies

20-05-2024 13:16 Active and retired police officers in Misiones Province stage street demonstrations in demand of better pay.

POLITICS

Police raid soup kitchens as government claims 47% ‘do not exist’

16-05-2024 17:21 According to the Human Capital Ministry, almost half of registered soup kitchens and emergency canteens surveyed presented irregularities such as ghost addresses. No details of full list, but government claims address of one was listed as residence in a gated community.

SOCIAL UNREST

Eleven arrests as police crack down on protesters in Buenos Aires

10-04-2024 16:28 Police water cannons, tear gas and rubber bullets to break up a temporary blockade of Avenida 9 de Julia.

POLITICS

Police clash with social organisations during anti-austerity protests

19-03-2024 17:08 Clashes as social organisations and picket groups demonstrate against growing hunger and lack of aid to food banks and soup kitchens. Protesters and journalists wounded.

CRIME & SECURITY

Federal troops arrive in Rosario as drug violence, paralyses city

14-03-2024 21:53 After a week marked by a wave of violence, murder and drug-trafficking, 450 reinforcements arrive in troubled city, adding to the 2,000 members of the Coast Guard, Border Guard, Federal Police and Airport Security Force who are providing support.

CRIME & SECURITY

Santa Fe governor orders Bukele-style tactics for narcos in Rosario

11-03-2024 12:53 Santa Fe Province Governor Maximiliano Pullaro is angering narco bosses with his Bukele-style approach to tackling drug violence in dangerous Rosario.

POLITICS

Security Minister Patricia Bullrich deepens anti-picket doctrine

19-02-2024 16:37 Argentina's security minister is moving forward with her anti-picket protocol with social conflict on the rise and wants the courts to be swifter in lifting roadblocks – the order from her portfolio is not to dialogue with social organisations and union leaders.

by Ezequiel Spillman

FOOTBALL VIOLENCE

Two football fan deaths puts hooliganism back on agenda

07-02-2024 13:17 One fan stabbed to death during Chacarita Juniors-Deportivo Maipú match, another suffers same fate before Gimnasia Mendoza-Defensores del Belgrano clash.

Omnibus Protests

Four women arrested for peaceful protest outside Congress released after outcry

01-02-2024 19:01 Argentine federal police arrested and detained four women singing the national anthem on the curb in front of Congress Plaza. Following backlash from officials and political parties on social media, all were released this morning.

by Ashton Goren

CRIME & SECURITY

Suspect arrested as family holds service for slain nine-year-old

23-01-2024 11:47 Devastated by the death of Umma Aguilera, relatives of the victim hold a wake for their beloved; Killing of nine-year-old daughter of Partricia Bullrich’s custodian believed to have been carried out by four individuals, police are still searching for three remaining suspects.

VIOLENCE AT MARACANÃ

Attack on fans overshadows Argentina historic win over Brazil

22-11-2023 12:52 Violence at the Maracanã as Brazilian police attack Argentina fans; Messi leads players off pitch in protest; Albiceleste goes on to win 1-0, breaking Brazil’s unbeaten qualifying run dating back to 1954.

MUSIC & CULTURE

Cumbia singer L-Gante released from jail after three months

09-09-2023 12:42 Popular cumbia singer L-Gante was released from jail on Friday night after three months behind bars.

POLICE VIOLENCE

Three police officers given life imprisonment for 17-year-old’s killing

11-07-2023 14:20 Three Buenos Aires City police officers – Gabriel Alejandro Issasi, Juan José Nieva and Fabián Andrés López – sentenced to life imprisonment for the killing of 17-year-old Lucas González in November 2021.

CRIME & SECURITY

Rosario surpasses grim threshold of 150 homicides

06-07-2023 09:35 Four people killed in just three hours in crime-ridden Rosario; Argentina's second city, with a population of 1.3 million, has already suffered 151 homicides this year.

Drug-trafficking

Uruguay finds cocaine in surfboards bound for Europe

14-06-2023 10:32 Uruguay's anti-drug brigade seize almost 50 kilos of cocaine hidden in surfboards in an international operation launched in May with police from Spain, Portugal and Italy. The drugs were bound for Europe.

ARGENTINA IN ASIA

A drink with Messi for US$42,000? Chinese police warn over scams

11-06-2023 08:58 Argentina skipper's presence in China for a friendly against Australia has drawn scammers and ticket-scalpers desperate to capitalise on Messi mania.

JOURNALIST FOUND DEAD

Corrientes journalist who denounced police abuses found ‘beaten and strangled’

22-05-2023 12:13 Body of Griselda Blanco, journalist who denounced alleged police abuses in Corrientes Province, found beaten and hanged at her home in Curuzú Cuatiá; Ex-partner arrested, but family members say death could be linked to previous reporting.

NIGHTMARE EXPERIENCE

Woman interred alive in Brazil tomb

30-03-2023 14:16 Thirty-six-year-old woman found sealed alive inside a mausoleum wall at a cemetery in Brazil, after surviving around 10 hours inside the narrow tomb.

CRIME & SECURITY

Rosario: A city under threat from murderous drug gangs

29-03-2023 13:18 Rosario, Argentina's second city with a population of 1.3 million, has a homicide rate of 22 per 100,000 inhabitants – five times the national average. As a result of its privileged position as a major port city, drug-trafficking is having a devastating impact on the city’s poorest neighbourhoods and residents.

CRIME & SECURITY

Government reinforces security forces in Rosario amid drug violence

07-03-2023 15:07 President Fernández boosts the number of federal security forces available to authorities in Rosario and says he will send a division of the Army to support efforts to overhaul and urbanise working-class neighbourhoods.

CRIME & SECURITY

Police officers mourn colleague killed in Retiro Subte shooting

16-02-2023 13:44 City police force turns out in large numbers for funeral of slain officer killed at Retiro Subte station by Oscar Gustavo Valdez; Suspect questioned ahead of indictment for aggravated homicide.

CRIME & SECURITY

Santa Fe governor fires security minister as narco violence worsens

09-02-2023 14:41 Following a week of violence, the provincial governor dismissed Rubén Rimoldi from his post and appointed Claudio Brilloni, commander of the National Board Guard, in his place. There were also changes in local police leadership.

MOUNTAINEERING FATALITIES

Three die in Argentina while climbing Aconcagua, highest peak in Americas

08-02-2023 23:52 Two US citizens and a 62-year-old Norwegian have died in the past four days while climbing Aconcagua, the tallest mountain in the Americas.

CRIME

Police raid unlicensed rehab centre in Moreno, rescuing more than 80

07-02-2023 15:52 According to police, detained patients suffered "corporal punishment, torture and restraints." Three people have been arrested in conjunction with the unlicensed health institution in the town of La Reja, near Moreno.

Unrest in Peru

Peru president urges Congress to bring elections forward

30-01-2023 11:34 Peruvian President Dina Boluarte has made a renewed appeal for Congress to move elections from 2024 to October 2023 as a way to end weeks of deadly protests, warning that otherwise she will seek constitutional reform to make a vote happen.

CRIME & SECURITY

Mapuche leader Facundo Jones Huala arrested in El Bolsón

30-01-2023 11:17 Río Negro Province government confirms radical Mapuche leader has been detained; Jones Huala, who was allegedly drunk when found by police, had been hiding at a property in El Bolsón.

Protests in Peru

Peru closes Machu Picchu airport as nationwide protests persist

13-01-2023 11:52 The airport in Cusco, gateway to Peru's tourism crown jewel, was closed indefinitely Thursday "as a preventative measure."

NEW ERA IN BRAZIL

Entire Brasilia police force to deploy for Lula's swearing-in

28-12-2022 13:14 Over the weekend, a man was arrested after allegedly placing explosives in a fuel truck near Brasilia's airport, hoping to sow "chaos" ahead of the inauguration Sunday.