Tag: Argentine Army

• Friday, January 5th 2024 - 09:36 UTC

  Icebreaker Irízar pays tribute to ARA San Juan crew

  

  The Argentine Navy icebreaker ARA Almirante Irízar stopped in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean this week, en route to this summer's Antarctic campaign, at the site where the doomed submarine ARA San Juan was found off Comodoro Rivadavia in 2018, paying tribute to the crew and demanding justice from the ongoing investigation into the unit's 2017 sinking.

• Friday, September 22nd 2023 - 08:42 UTC

  Argentine Army officers remanded for “welcome rite” murder

  

  Argentine Judiciary authorities Thursday ordered the arrest of seven Army officers for their alleged involvement in the death of Second Lieutenant Matías Chirino after an “initiation rite” at the Artillery Group Nº 3 barracks in Paso de los Libres, in the province of Corrientes in June last year.

• Friday, September 22nd 2023 - 08:38 UTC

  Four Argentine soldiers killed in lorry crash

  

  Four servicepeople of the Argentine Army died Thursday and 18 others were injured when a a Mercedez Benz 1518 lorry derailed on Provincial Route 62 in the San Martín de los Andes area in the Patagonian province of Neuquén as it was bringing back the soldiers to their barracks after high mountain skiing practice.

• Friday, March 10th 2023 - 10:45 UTC

  Argentine soldier dies while training amid heat wave

  

  An Argentine Army cadet died Monday during a training session in the middle of a heat wave, it was reported this week. A 21-year-old young man in the first year of his military career died during “physical training” practices at the National Military College (Officer's Academy - CMN).

• Monday, July 11th 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  Argentine Cpl. paralyzed from the waist down in another welcome rite

  

  Argentine authorities have launched an inquiry into how an Army corporal in the province of Misiones ended up with injuries in his legs just days after a second lieutenant died as the apparent result of a “baptism” party in the neighboring province of Corrientes.

• Thursday, June 23rd 2022 - 08:19 UTC

  Argentine Army places 11 officers under suspension over 2nd Lt's death

  

  Eleven serving officers of the Argentine Army have been suspended from duty pending inquiries into the death of Second Lieutenant Matías Chirino after an initiation party at the Artillery Group Nº 3 barracks in Paso de los Libres, in the province of Corrientes last weekend.

• Tuesday, June 21st 2022 - 22:12 UTC

  Argentine Army second lieutenant dies after officers' party

  

  Argentine Army Second Lieutenant Matías Ezequiel Chirino has died in the province of Corrientes following a cardiac decompensation after an initiation party known as “baptism,” it was reported.

• Wednesday, March 23rd 2022 - 08:54 UTC

  Argentina to recruit additional voluntary soldiers to boost armed forces

  

  Argentina's Defense Minister Jorge Taiana has announced 10,000 new volunteer soldiers are o be recruited to boost the manning of military barracks. The country's armed forces currently have some 17,000 troops nationwide, it was reported.

• Monday, October 11th 2021 - 09:01 UTC

  Argentine Defense Ministry announces new military base in Catamarca

  

  Argentine Defense Minister Jorge Taiana and Governor Raúl Jalil of the province of Catamarca signed late last week an agreement whereby the national Army will set up a military unit in the provincial capital.

• Saturday, May 4th 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  Former Argentine army chief (under Cristina Fernandez) on trial for kidnapping and torture

  

  A former Argentine army chief went on trial Friday for the kidnapping and torture of a father and son during the country's military dictatorship.