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  • Wednesday, March 20th 2024 - 08:17 UTC

    Argentina: Mauricio Macri becomes PRO Party Chairman

    The former president plans to boost the careers of Torres, Frigerio as well as that of his cousin

    Former Argentine President Mauricio Macri was appointed Tuesday to chair the Propuesta Republicana (PRO) Party which he founded and which led him to the Casa Rosada between 2015 and 2019 under the Juntos por el Cambio (JxC) coalition with the Radical Civic Unión (UCR) and other political forces.

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  • Tuesday, March 19th 2024 - 19:05 UTC

    Drug gang expansion feared as federal forces handle security in Rosario

    “If they are not stopped,” these gangs will “move to another territory,” Roncaglia warned

    As federal troops are deployed to tackle drug trafficking in the city of Rosario, authorities in other parts of the province of Santa Fe and its neighboring territories now fear gangs might migrate in search of other, less challenging venues to keep their illegal business going.

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  • Monday, March 18th 2024 - 19:29 UTC

    Protesters prevented from blocking access to Buenos Aires

    Protesters were met with Bullrich's anti-riot protocol which includes the use of tear gas

    Federal troops and Buenos Aires City Police clashed Monday with leftwing organizations seeking to block access to the country's capital through the Saavedra (north) and Pueyrredón (south) bridges to protest against President Javier Milei's policies.

  • Thursday, March 14th 2024 - 10:46 UTC

    New guidelines on use of firearms issued to tackle violence in Rosario

    Bullrich's new regulations repeal all previous ministerial resolutions and provisions regarding the use of weapons

    Argentine authorities issued a new set of guidelines regarding the use of firearms by federal law enforcement forces deployed to curb gang violence in the city of Rosario, it was reported Wednesday in Buenos Aires as the measure was to be released in Thursday's edition of the Official Gazette.

  • Wednesday, February 28th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Bullrich warns rebel governors with reprisals

    Macri should express his stance regarding Torres' threat, Bullrich insisted

    Argentina's Security Patricia Bullrich strongly cautioned all provincial governors who announced measures in reprisal for the federal government's decision to cut funding to provincial administrations already in debt with the national coffers. “All the resources of the State will go against those who want to rebel,” Bullrich stressed.

  • Saturday, February 24th 2024 - 11:58 UTC

    Bullrich tells Bukele she wants to replicate his security plan in Argentina

    “We are at your service for whatever you need,” Bukele told Bullrich at the Conservative gathering in Washington DC

    Argentina's Security Minister Patricia Bullrich told El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele Friday in Washington DC at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) summit that “we want to follow the model you are carrying out” to tackle crime. Argentine President Javier Milei is scheduled to speak Saturday at this event after meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Buenos Aires.

  • Thursday, January 25th 2024 - 15:12 UTC

    Argentine leftwing and labor groups stage national strike against Milei's reforms

    “I am a fan of Huracán, but they want to come for the big [football] clubs,” explained Daer about Milei's most encompassing DNU that targets virtually everything

    Argentine labor unions staged a relatively successful strike and demonstration Wednesday to protest against President Javier Milei's emergency decree (DNU) already in force plus the so-called Omnibus Law bill to curb public spending which would defund numerous activities currently running on State allowances. It was the first such measure since May 29, 2019, under then-President Mauricio Macri (2015-2019).

  • Wednesday, January 24th 2024 - 10:59 UTC

    Argentina: The right to demonstrate must be preserved, judge rules

    Judge Kreplak decided in favor of protecting the people's freedom of movement but found no grounds to declare Minister Bullrich's anti-picketing protocol unconstitutional

    Argentine law enforcement authorities have been banned by Federal Judge Ernesto Kreplak from filming Wednesday's demonstrations during the nationwide strike called for by opposition labor unions and groups in rejection of President Javier Milei's most-encompassing emergency decree and the so-called Omnibus Law bill seeking to curb public spending,

  • Tuesday, January 23rd 2024 - 11:04 UTC

    Argentina: Daughter of minister's bodyguard killed during robbery

    Umma was 9 years old

    Nine-year-old Umma, the daughter of an Argentine Federal Police (PFA) officer who serves on Security Minister Patricia Bullrich's bodyguard team, died Monday from a bullet wound to her head when the family was robbed at gunpoint, it was reported in Buenos Aires.

  • Thursday, December 28th 2023 - 09:53 UTC

    Uneventful protest in Argentina ends in arrests and other incidents in adjacent areas

    Clashes erupted between departing demonstrators and riot police who tried to apply Security Minister Patricia Bullrich's new protocol

    Several people were arrested in downtown Buenos Aires on Wednesday after a demonstration in front of the main Courthouse in which the country's unions and some social organizations demanded that President Javier Milei's sweeping emergency decree (DNU) of last week be overturned by the judiciary through a declaration of unconstitutionality.

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