News of security ministry

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

Yesterday 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

TERROR ATTACKS

Argentina names Hezbollah operative behind AMIA, Israeli Embassy attacks

31-10-2024 15:54 Security Minister Patricia Bullrich reveals identity of top Hezbollah leader in Latin America, alleging Hussein Ahmad Karaki was responsible for the AMIA community centre and Israeli Embassy bombings in the 1990s.

Disappearance of Loan Danilo Peña

Aunt of missing five-year-old child Loan testifies he was ‘run over’

29-06-2024 15:23 Confession delivers unexpected twist in missing child case; Loan Danilo Peña, last seen two weeks ago, was “run over” by ex-Navy officer Carlos Pérez and ex-municipal employee María Victoria Caillava, says aunt; Police believe body may have been buried in cover-up.

CRIME & SECURITY

Prison breaks in Buenos Aires: 19 inmates escape in 20 days, many convicts at large

23-04-2024 16:04 Fugitives on the run in Argentina – overcrowding at police stations in and across the capital allows detainees to escape from jail.

CRIME & SECURITY

‘Plot’ twist: Court frees trio held over ‘terrorist act’ plan

16-01-2024 14:49 Members of “possible terrorist cell” denounced publicly by Security Minister Patricia Bullrich released due to lack of evidence; Accused must appear before the courts once a month and may not leave Argentina.

GENDER VIOLENCE

Femicides up as Milei seeks to weaken protections

13-01-2024 22:18 Argentina registered 322 femicides in 2023, a figure equivalent to almost one murder a day, according to government data.

CRIME & SECURITY

Police arrest three foreigners on terrorism plot suspicions

04-01-2024 13:19 Security Minister Patricia Bullrich assures that suspected members of a terrorist cell arrested were waiting for "a package from Yemen"; Trio detained on December 30 are believed to be from Syria and Lebanon and at least one had multiple Latin American passports in his possession.

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Anti-picket protocol: Judge rules in favour of the government

21-12-2023 14:58 Security Minister Patricia Bullrich, author of government's new anti-picket protocol, celebrates court ruling on social media.

DEMONSTRATIONS IN BUENOS AIRES

Bullrich issues warning as picket groups forecast high turnout

20-12-2023 14:40 Security forces will be put under the spotlight later today when demonstrators deliver first challenge to Patricia Bullrich’s new anti-picket protest protocol.

CRIME & SECURITY

Milei moves to limit anti-austerity protests in Argentina

14-12-2023 19:45 Security Minister Patricia Bullrich has announced that Argentina’s federal forces will intervene in any protests or street blockades conducted without a permit.

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Bullrich returns to government as security minister in Milei's Cabinet

01-12-2023 13:43 President-elect confirms in statement that Patricia Bullrich will return to the Security Ministry for a second time; Former rivals now aligned together in government.

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.

News of security ministry

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

Argentina names Hezbollah operative behind AMIA, Israeli Embassy attacks

Aunt of missing five-year-old child Loan testifies he was ‘run over’

Prison breaks in Buenos Aires: 19 inmates escape in 20 days, many convicts at large

‘Plot’ twist: Court frees trio held over ‘terrorist act’ plan

Femicides up as Milei seeks to weaken protections

Police arrest three foreigners on terrorism plot suspicions

Anti-picket protocol: Judge rules in favour of the government

Bullrich issues warning as picket groups forecast high turnout

Milei moves to limit anti-austerity protests in Argentina

Bullrich returns to government as security minister in Milei's Cabinet

Government creates new unit to probe ‘environmental crimes’

Milei, Caputo increasing bullish as they outline new IMF deal timeline

Colombia offers to safeguard Maduro foes at Argentina's Embassy as stand-off deepens

Chile sends note of protest to Argentina after Caputo's criticism of Boric

Argentina takes steps to speed up Milei’s dollarisation strategy

IMF in talks with Argentina on loan to succeed US$44-billion deal

Culiao: la palabra que eligió la Agencia Córdoba Turismo para promocionar la provincia

Nicolás Maduro quiere canjear a Milagro Sala por opositores refugiados en la Embajada Argentina en Venezuela

Leonardo Cositorto apuntó contra Javier Milei: "¿Por qué estoy preso yo y él no?"

Recorrida por la VI Brigada Aérea de Tandil: qué función cumplirá el F16 que llegó a la Argentina

Acuerdo de Libre Comercio con EEUU: aseguran que “Trump está en otra onda muy distinta a la de Milei”