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Montevideo, May 6th 2025 - 07:37 UTC

Tag: Patricia Bullrich

  • Friday, March 7th 2025 - 19:28 UTC

    Unprecedented storm hits Argentine city of Bahía Blanca

    The 220 mm of water was the harshest rain Bahía Blanca has ever faced

    The City of Bahía Blanca, in the Argentine Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 570 km south of the country's capital, was struck by a record-setting rainfall way worse than the historic 167.6 mm recorded in 1933.

  • Saturday, February 15th 2025 - 10:59 UTC

    Argentina: Ancestral Mapuche Resistance declared a terrorist organization

    Since the measure halting evictions from what native groups claim to be their ancestral lands, wildfires have been on the rise in Patagonia, Bullrich explained

    Argentina's Libertarian Government of President Javier Milei Friday declared the Ancestral Mapuche Resistance (RAM) a Terrorist Organization, so that federal security forces can adopt the proper measures as Lonko Facundo Jones-Huala, who has served a prison sentence in Chile for arson, has been speaking in favor of setting Patagonian lands on fire.

  • Wednesday, February 12th 2025 - 10:49 UTC

    Argentina to create unified Federal Emergency Agency

    With 12 relief agencies overlapping efforts, they make a disaster, Bullrich explained

    The Argentine Government announced Tuesday the creation of a Federal Emergency Agency to coordinate relief against major disasters such as fires and floods. There are 12 State structures overlapping in cases of emergencies, which “generates disorder,” explained Security Minister Patricia Bullrich from El Bolsón, where she was overseeing the wildfire fighting efforts alongside Defense Minister Luis Petri.

  • Wednesday, February 5th 2025 - 13:28 UTC

    Argentine authorities take action against RAM for Patagonia fires

    “I am a militant of the Mapuche cause,” Jones-Huala insisted

    Argentine Security Minister Patricia Bullrich said Tuesday that the Libertarian Government of President Javier Milei would be declaring the Ancestral Mapuche Resistance (RAM) a terrorist group, in addition to other measures against lonko (leader) Facundo Jones-Huala, who claimed responsibility for the arson-caused wildfires in the Patagonian province of Chubut and urged his comrades to up the armed struggle because all those “tools are valid for the liberation of our people.” Jones-Huala also denied any involvement in the fire affecting El Bolsón in the province of Río Negro. “Against landowners yes, but not against our environment,” Jones Huala said earlier this week.

  • Monday, January 20th 2025 - 07:40 UTC

    Argentine gov't pledges to find those responsible for Prosecutor Nisman's murder

    Nisman wound up dead with a bullet in his head just hours before coming forward in Congress with his findings about the 1994 AMIA bombing

    Argentine President Javier Milei said that Special Prosecutor Alberto Nisman was murdered “at the hands of the darkest powers” in the country. Nisman was found dead on Jan. 18, 2015, in his apartment with a bullet in his head just hours before appearing before a Congressional committee to explain his findings regarding the so-called Memorandum of Understanding with Iran.

  • Wednesday, January 15th 2025 - 10:32 UTC

    Alleged Islamist terrorist arrested in Argentina

    “We dismantled a network of hate and terror that was trying to infiltrate our society,” Bullrich stressed

    Argentine authorities announced Tuesday the arrest of an Islamist individual who was allegedly planning an imminent attack on home soil. “The plan was very advanced, in its last stage...,” Security Minister Patricia Bullrich explained. The suspect posed “a concrete threat to national security,” she also pointed out. “We thwarted his plans before he could cause any harm,” she insisted.

  • Thursday, January 9th 2025 - 20:20 UTC

    Argentine official wants U-20 Football Championship not played in Venezuela

    Bullrich's fears impliciglh admit Maduro's remaining in power after Jan 10

    Argentina's Security Minister Patricia Bullrich insisted Wednesday that the upcoming South American U-20 Football Championship scheduled to be played in Venezuela should be held somewhere else given the insecurity the Bolivarian regime of President Nicolás Maduro would represent to the Argentine delegation as well as others, considering last month's arrest of Border Guard (Gendarmería Nacional) First Corporal Nahuel Gallo who was charged with espionage for planning to kill Executive Vice President Delcy Roldríguez.

  • Thursday, December 26th 2024 - 22:21 UTC

    Former Argentine Ambassador to Venezuela accused of treason

    The Security Ministry said Laborde was a collaborator of Maduro's Chavista regime

    Argentia's Security Minister Thursday filed criminal charges for treason against former Ambassador to Venezuela Oscar Laborde for meddling before the Bolivarian regime in the case of Border Guard (Gendarmería Nacional) non-commissioned officer Nahuel Gallo who was apprehended by Caracas and accused of espionage. Signing the documents was Security Ministry's Chief Legal Counselor Fernando Soto.

  • Wednesday, December 18th 2024 - 20:21 UTC

    Civic Service reinstated in Argentina

    Ministers Bullrich (R) and Pettovello signed the agreement

    The Argentine Government announced Tuesday that it was implementing a so-called Civic Service for people aged between 18 and 24 who neither study nor work. The measure was approved in a joint agreement between the Ministries of Security and Human Capital.

  • Saturday, December 14th 2024 - 10:56 UTC

    US denounces Hezbollah's presence in Chile to seek funding

    In June this year, Argentina's Security Minister Patricia Bullrich had to apologize to the Chilean government for mentioning Hezbollah's presence with no corroborating evidence

    The US State Department said this week that the Lebanon-based terrorist organization Hezbollah had been operating in Chile and other Latin American countries to obtain funding for its activities in a report that also mentioned Colombia's National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas, dissidents of the defunct FARC and Peru's Shining Path as the biggest threats in the region.

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