News of officers

Three police officers charged with killing of Lucas González

07-12-2021 16:46 Three City police officers – Gabriel Alejandro Issasi, Juan José Nieva and Fabián Andrés López – remanded in custody and charged with killing 17-year-old Lucas González last month.

DEATH OF LUCAS GONZÁLEZ

Killing of 17-year-old by three police officers sparks debate over ‘trigger-happy’ policing

20-11-2021 11:49 NGO expresses concern over use of ‘excessive force’ by officers after youngster Lucas González is shot in head twice by police officers in City neighbourhood of Barracas.

by James Grainger

TERROR THREAT?

Argentina tightens border after tip-off warns of bomb attack on Jewish community

15-11-2020 10:34 Security Ministry opens probe after anonymous tipster warns Embassy in London that explosive material is due to cross border with Paraguay “for a bomb in Argentina with a Jewish objective.”

Military liason board

Rossi accuses ex-Army officers of trying to destabilise government

12-11-2020 16:29 Defence Minister Agustín Rossi on Thursday accused a group of retired Army officers of conspiring to destabilise President Alberto Fernández's government.

CRIME & SECURITY

Four injured, including two police officers, in shooting incident at Retiro

27-10-2020 18:06 Four people, including two police officers, were injured on Tuesday morning as gunshots were fired near the Retiro railway station in Buenos Aires.

GUEST VOICE

Behind the conflict with the police

12-09-2020 09:43 The reasons for the protest? We can divide them into two main categories: institutional and political.

by Andrei Serbin Pont

Coronavirus pandemic

Miguel Etchecolatz, ‘Tigre’ Acosta test positive for coronavirus

06-08-2020 23:38 Two of the most infamous criminals convicted of crimes against humanity during Argentina’s last military dictatorship (1976-1983), Miguel Etchecolatz and Jorge 'Tigre' Acosta, test positive for Covid-19.

by Luciana Bertoia

POLICE BRUTALITY

Complaint filed after 17-year-old 'tortured with cattle prod' by police officers

31-07-2020 01:57 Members of Buenos Aires provincial force formally denounced by rights group for allegedly beating up a 17-year-old youth and torturing him with an electric cattle prod.

POLICE BRUTALITY

Tucumán: Probe into police opened after man 'suffocated' during arrest

28-06-2020 19:09 Investigation opened in northern province after death of 43-year-old Walter Ceferino Nadal, in circumstances allegedly similar to death of George Floyd in United States.

News of officers

Three police officers charged with killing of Lucas González

Killing of 17-year-old by three police officers sparks debate over ‘trigger-happy’ policing

Argentina tightens border after tip-off warns of bomb attack on Jewish community

Rossi accuses ex-Army officers of trying to destabilise government

Four injured, including two police officers, in shooting incident at Retiro

Behind the conflict with the police

Miguel Etchecolatz, ‘Tigre’ Acosta test positive for coronavirus

Complaint filed after 17-year-old 'tortured with cattle prod' by police officers

Tucumán: Probe into police opened after man 'suffocated' during arrest

Argentina moves closer to joining BRICS group

Musk, Bolsonaro talk free speech, deforestation in Brazil

What a Russian defeat could mean

Economy contracted more than expected in March, says INDEC

Forty years on, Malvinas claim remains as fresh as ever

Cómo era la relación entre Felipe Pettinato y Melchor Rodrigo: se conocieron presuntos chats

La seductora hija de Uma Thurman y de Ethan Hawke deslumbró en la premiere de 'Stranger Things 4'

Progresar Trabajo: cómo puedo anotarme y hasta cuándo tengo tiempo

Bolilla negra para el arrabal porteño

Wado De Pedro cargó contra la Ciudad y exigió mudar YPF: "Basta de atender y vivir en Buenos Aires"