BOCA STAR IN COURT Boca star Sebastián Villa found guilty of assaulting ex-partner Yesterdat 22:08 Boca Juniors midfielder Sebastián Villa has played his last game for the club after a court found him guilty of assaulting his ex-girlfriend in April 2020.
CRIME & SECURITY Griselda Blanco murder: Investigators probe WhatsApp chats and ‘extortion’ claim 01-06-2023 12:59 Prosecutor investigating the death of a journalist from Corrientes Province who was found strangled at her home affirms that the victim had a relationship of “conflict” with a businessman who has been detained by the police.
CRIME & SECURITY Second suspect for murder of Corrientes journalist indicted for homicide 29-05-2023 17:25 Second person arrested for the murder of Corrientes journalist Griselda Blanco refuses to testify in court. Initial suspect, another former partner, released from custody.
CRIME & SECURITY More than 40% of victims of sexual violence in Argentina are children 24-05-2023 14:08 New report by UFEM unit reveals that 87% of adult victims of sexual violence are female and that 90% of those charged with such crimes are male.
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.
RAPE ALLEGATION Thelma Fardín vows appeals as Brazil court acquits Darthés of rape 18-05-2023 17:28 Actor Juan Darthés acquitted in first instance for the crime of rape against Thelma Fardin by Brazilian court, which concluded it could not prove penetration had taken place.
CRIME & SECURITY Argentine tourist dies after Mexico machete attack 16-05-2023 12:10 Young Argentine tourist who was attacked by a man with a machete in southern Mexico dies of injuries sustained in brutal attack.
ELECTIONS 2023: PROFILE Patricia Bullrich vows crackdown to halt sell-off 14-05-2023 08:06 Argentina is suffering economic carnage – this hard-liner thinks she has the solution.
CRIME & SECURITY Argentina’s ‘black widow’ thieves trawl Tinder for victims 08-05-2023 07:18 Police highlight string of cases in Buenos Aires in which so-called “black widow” thieves are using dating app Tinder to identify, seduce and drug older men in order to rob them. by Leonardo Nieva
PERU IMMIGRATION Peru deploys military to block undocumented migrants 27-04-2023 13:20 Peru's president decrees state of emergency at the country's borders and sends troops to reinforce checkpoints and block undocumented migrants making their way north from Chile.
UNREST IN PERU Peru ex-president extradited from United States, taken to prison 24-04-2023 10:54 Peru's former president Alejandro Toledo was jailed on Sunday, hours after arriving back in his homeland from the United States to face charges of money-laundering and corruption dating back to his mandate.
Eugenio Burzaco interview City security minister: ‘Tasers will be operational in Buenos Aires by June or July’ 18-04-2023 16:09 Buenos Aires City Security Minister Eugenio Burzaco reveals in an interview that the first shipment of tasers will arrive this month and City Hall hopes to have 100 in use by the end of the year.
CRIME & SECURITY Interpol says 14,000 arrested in Latin America gun raids 18-04-2023 15:08 Over 14,000 people have been arrested and 8,000 weapons seized in an anti-firearms operation across Central and South America, Interpol announces.
COLOMBIAN POLITICS Dissident FARC group in Colombia 'ready' for peace talks 17-04-2023 09:21 Armed dissident group of Colombia's disbanded FARC guerrillas announce they're ready to start peace talks with the government next month, a boost for President Gustavo Petro's quest for "total peace."
BRAZILIAN POLITICS Jair Bolsonaro ordered to face questioning over Brazil riots 17-04-2023 09:02 Brazilian Supreme Court judge has ordered former president Jair Bolsonaro to face questioning over riots in the seat of power by his supporters on January 8.
UNREST IN PERU Peru jails ex-intelligence chief over 1988 journalist murder 13-04-2023 13:59 Court in Peru sentences country's former military intelligence chief to 12 years in prison over his role in the 1988 murder of journalist Hugo Bustios Saavedra.
ELECTIONS 2023 Aníbal Fernández predicts ‘repression and blood’ if right wins election 13-04-2023 13:58 Argentina’s national security minister says there will be “deaths and streets strewn with blood” if opposition Juntos por el Cambio or libertarian right-wingers win election.
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.
CRIME & SECURITY Family seek justice for slain Catamarca minister 06-04-2023 18:00 The children of Juan Carlos Rojas, late Catamarca Province social development minister, denounce the “cover up” of their father’s brutal murder last December, providing photos of mutilated victim as proof of wrongdoing.
POVERTY Shock as homeless family’s baby dies on Casa Rosada’s doorstep 31-03-2023 11:23 The devastating consequences of poverty in Argentina were brought home on Friday when a homeless family's three-month-old baby died just metres from the Casa Rosada's door.
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.
DEBT PILE Argentina confirms plans to force debt swap on state entities 23-03-2023 17:08 State banks and ANSES social security agency must swap 100% of foreign bond holdings for peso-denominated debt, decree confirms.
POLITICS City security minister Marcelo D’Alessandro resigns post 23-03-2023 08:44 Buenos Aires City security and justice minister, who has been on leave for three months, resigns following scandal prompted by Lago Escondido leaked chat messages.
WELCOME HOME WORLD CHAMPIONS! Argentina and 'La Scaloneta' prepare for Monumental World Cup party 23-03-2023 00:26 River Plate's Monumental stadium, packed with 83,000 souls, will provide a boisterous backdrop to Argentina's first match as world champions this Thursday night.
CRIME & SECURITY US Embassy hit by two security scares on consecutive days 09-03-2023 16:30 Suspicious device found on Embassy gates in Palermo on Thursday, a day after two Syrians with falsified documentation were detained and terrorism protocol activated.
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.
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.
Violence in Rosario Investigators: Attackers of Messi's in-laws’ supermarket seeking ‘impact’ 03-03-2023 17:25 Threatening attack on supermarket owned by Lionel Messi's in-laws was intended to "generate intimidation" and "public impact," investigators said Friday.
CRIME & SECURITY Security minister under fire after admitting ‘narcos have won’ in Rosario 02-03-2023 19:45 Aníbal Fernández slammed by opposition after asserting that the “narcos have won” in Rosario; Comments delivered in aftermath of threats and shooting at supermarket owned by family of Lionel Messi’s wife.
TOURISM CLAMPDOWN Big-spending tourists get raided by Argentine airport officials 17-02-2023 14:24 Officials now using social media to research the movement of passengers who they suspect are using precious foreign exchange to bring goods into the country to sell.
PREGNANT RUSSIANS United States requests info on probe into pregnant Russian women in Argentina 17-02-2023 10:02 Washington seeks data on alleged criminal network luring pregnant Russians to Buenos Aires with so-called childbirth tourism packages.
VIOLENCE IN ROSARIO Campaigners in Rosario demand action in ‘capital of perfect crime’ 15-02-2023 21:58 "They’re killing us and nobody does anything" – activist group Familiares y Víctimas de la Inseguridad makes new appeal to provincial and national governments; Narco violence continues to terrorise Rosario with 41 homicides since turn of the year.
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.
Brazil Congress Elections Brazil's Congress elects new authorities under tight security 01-02-2023 16:58 Brazil's Congress on Wednesday elects presidents of both chambers; Inauguration of lawmakers takes place amid reinforced security after attacks on the government buildings in Brasília.
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.
Murder in Villa Gesell 'Los Rugbiers': the group of eight accused of killing Fernando Báez Sosa 18-01-2023 11:43 Eight individuals – all aged between 21 and 23 – are accused of killing teenager Fernando Báez Sosa on January 18, 2020 in Villa Gesell.
ENVIRONMENT Government creates new unit to probe ‘environmental crimes’ 16-01-2023 16:50 Argentina’s government has created a new unit to investigate and prevent environmental crimes, responding to the deliberate destruction of terrain for commercial purposes.
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.
FEATURE: DRUG-TRAFFICKING How drug smugglers infiltrated a global shipping giant 24-12-2022 09:40 As MSC grew into a dominant force in global trade, it also became a prime drug-trafficking conduit for Balkan gangs.
FEATURE: DRUG-TRAFFICKING The golden age of cocaine is happening right now 22-12-2022 14:09 Global fallout from Colombia's cocaine boom is showing up everywhere from the warehouses of Antwerp to coup plots in West Africa, bringing violence, corruption and big profits.
CRIME & SECURITY Fourteen-year-old found with gunshot wound to head in Palermo 28-11-2022 10:51 Police investigating reports teenager had been kidnapped for ransom and parents received extortion call, but are also investigating a possible suicide attempt, according to reports.
Politics & corruption Sergio Berni walks the line as the coalitions bend 26-11-2022 06:26 Sergio Berni is once again walking on the edge of a tightrope, a situation he knows all too well. by Agustino Fontevecchia
EDITORIAL Hanging in the balance (of powers) 26-11-2022 01:52 Argentina has very concrete problems resulting from the seemingly abstract factor of legal security.
INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO Patricia Bullrich: ‘Alberto Fernández, after the role he has played, cannot run again’ 12-11-2022 07:24 PRO party chair and 2023 presidential hopeful on candidacies, Mauricio Macri’s role moving forward and the failed attack on Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. by Jorge Fontevecchia
FOOTBALL IN ARGENTINA A football match is not a war 14-10-2022 08:27 Events at the Gimnasia-Boca match show that a comprehensive overhaul of the policing of football matches is long overdue. by Dan Edwards
INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO Cristian Ritondo: ‘I see Kirchnerism as a political adversary, not as an enemy’ 08-10-2022 04:55 Cristian Ritondo, chair of the PRO caucus in the lower house, on security, fighting crime, the attack on the vice-president and running for office in Buenos Aires Province. by Jorge Fontevecchia
SECURITY Twelve arrests in Villa Mascardi as security forces evict Mapuches 04-10-2022 17:06 Following weekend demonstrations by local residents, 250 members of security forces deployed by authorities in large operation to evict members of the Lafken Winkul Mapu community.
BRAZIL ELECTION 2022 All eyes on Army as Brazil heads for elections 29-09-2022 01:00 Experts say that while Jair Bolsonaro has the backing of some in the military, it is highly unlikely the institution would get involved in anything resembling a coup.
CRIME & SECURITY Opposition denounces violence in Río Negro as Mapuche conflict escalates 29-09-2022 00:18 Arson, occupation and conflict as hooded Mapuche gang seizes Los Radales lot in Villa Mascardi after fire.