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Tag: Patricia Bullrich

  • 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.

  • Sunday, December 24th 2023 - 14:20 UTC

    Milei says Argentina was left in a “regrettable” situation

    Milei insisted those who opposed his DNU were the ones who would lose some privileges

    Argentine President Javier Milei said his country's situation was “regrettable.” He made those remarks Saturday evening during his appearance together with Security Minister Patricia Bullrich on a live TV show with 96-year-old hostess Mirtha Legrand.

  • Thursday, December 21st 2023 - 10:53 UTC

    Buenos Aires: Two arrested in first mass rally against the government

    The two arrests were “for attacking police personnel,” according to government sources quoted by local media after clashes between protesters and law enforcement officers

    Two people were arrested Wednesday in Buenos Aires as leftwing groups staged a demonstration at Plaza de Mayo to commemorate another anniversary of the 2001 killings of protesters during the uprising against then-President Fernando de la Rúa who eventually resigned.

  • Tuesday, December 5th 2023 - 10:08 UTC

    Petri to be Argentina's next Defense Minister

    Petri gets off to a bad start, given his differences with Vice President-elect Villarruel (L)

    Argentina's president-elect Javier Milei confirmed on Monday that he had chosen former vice-presidential candidate Luis Petri of Juntos por el Cambio (JxC) to succeed Jorge Taiana as Defense Minister on Dec. 10.

  • Friday, December 1st 2023 - 22:39 UTC

    Milei confirms Bullrich will be his Security Minister

    The PRO Chairwoman and former presidential candidate held that position under Macri

    The Office of Argentina's President-Elect (@OPEArg) Friday confirmed Patricia Bullrich would return to her position as Security Minister once Javier Milei is sworn in on Dec. 10. The Chairwoman of former President Mauricio Macri's Propuesta Republicana party (PRO) held that job between 2015 and 2019. In the Oct. 22 elections, she failed to make it through to the Nov. 19 runoff so both she and Macri announced they would support Milei's candidacy against Economy Minister Sergio Massa.

  • Friday, November 24th 2023 - 10:45 UTC

    Who chooses Argentina's next cabinet? Not Milei apparently

    Bullrich will be returning to her post as Security Minister under Milei

    Former President Mauricio Macri is collecting on his Propuesta Republicana (PRO) party contribution to have Javier Milei win last Sunday's runoff against Economy Minister Sergio Massa and two of the most prominent members of the next administration's cabinet will be from Macrist allegiance, it was reported Thursday in Buenos Aires.

  • Monday, November 20th 2023 - 09:11 UTC

    Milei: Reconstructing Argentina starts today

    “We know that there are people who will resist,” Milei admitted

    Upon accepting his victory and the challenge ahead, President-elect Javier Milei of La Libertad Avanza said Sunday that “today begins the reconstruction of Argentina” after Sergio Massa of the ruling Unión por la Patria (UP) conceded defeat at the runoff.

  • Friday, November 17th 2023 - 10:06 UTC

    Córdoba streets filled with Milei supporters

    “We will go to hell itself” if Massa wins, Milei said.

    Libertarian Congressman Javier Milei closed his presidential campaign in Córdoba on Thursday ahead of Sunday's runoff with Economy Minister Sergio Massa: “Let's not let fear win over hope,” Milei told scores of supporters who filled the streets of the country's second-most populous city. The remaining opposition candidate insisted that Sunday's contest was “the most important election in the last 100 years.”