News of security

Argentina in shock over murders of three women by suspected narcos

Today 09:13 Brutal torture and murder of Morena Verdi, 20, Brenda Del Castillo, 20, and Lara Morena Gutiérrez, 15, shocks Argentina.

Crime & Security

Trial confirmed for 19-year-old accused of creating AI porn of schoolmates

24-09-2025 12:57 Former student who used Artificial Intelligence to create fake porn images and videos of schoolmates will stand trial, confirms Córdoba court; If convicted, the defendant could receive prison sentence of between three and 20 years in jail.

Immigration & Politics

Chile presidential hopeful vows to deport 'all' undocumented migrants

23-09-2025 13:18 Far-right candidate José Antonio Kast says he will deport all undocumented migrants from national territory if elected.

Foreign relations & diplomacy

Flight carrying Argentines deported from US lands in Buenos Aires

11-09-2025 08:43 First Trump-era deportation flight to Buenos Aires brings 17 Argentines back; Milei government tried to keep operation quiet and will not complain to Washington, but nation has been grouped alongside Brazil and Venezuela by the US administration.

PRESS FREEDOM

Judge bans release of Karina Milei audios amid scandal

01-09-2025 18:47 Federal judge in Argentina blocks journalists from releasing audio recordings of President Javier Milei’s sister, Karina, in the midst of a bribery scandal.

POLITICS

Pensioners on the frontline of politics

23-08-2025 06:44 It has become a Buenos Aires tradition – each Wednesday, baton-wielding riot police violently confront pensioners protesting against President Javier Milei’s policies.

POLITICS

Milei set to lose Bullrich and Petri after elections, reshuffle ahead

18-08-2025 12:42 Security and Defence ministers likely to leave Cabinet in December; Former Juntos por el Cambio presidential ticket now set to run for congressional posts representing La Libertad Avanza.

CONTAMINATED DRUG SCANDAL

Tainted fentanyl death toll clears 100 as Milei blames opposition

15-08-2025 10:14 President Javier Milei uses appearance at campaign rally in La Plata to point finger at opposition Kirchnerites and link rivals to developing scandal.

CRIME & SECURITY

Tainted fentanyl blamed for 87 hospital deaths

13-08-2025 22:58 Contaminated drug scandal grows, authorities fear true number of deaths may be even higher; Casa Rosada orders recusal of judge leading case, citing conflict of interest.

FEATURE

Los Menem SA: How ex-president’s clan invoices the state

08-08-2025 13:54 Business dealings with the state are part of the family’s income, with the Menem clan remaining close to power. A look at controversial contracts and the "series effect."

by Rodis Recalt

US-ARGENTINA RELATIONS

Milei receives Trump’s homeland security czar for visa agreement

30-07-2025 11:52 Initiative had been implemented during Carlos Menem Presidency and suspended after the 2001-2002 crisis; Deal will permit the exchange of intelligence information and immigration controls.

by Cecilia Degl'Innocenti

HUMAN RIGHTS

United Nations rights council criticises Milei pressure on Judiciary

15-07-2025 15:43 International rights watchdog calls for clarification on measures that could undermine the autonomy of the courts. Executive has yet to respond and present its defence.

POLITICS & SECURITY

Lawyers demand release of anti-Espert ‘K’ protesters

03-07-2025 19:24 Legal teams, backed by the Centre for Legal and Social Stories, rights groups and Milei critics, allege arrests are part of a campaign of "judicial and media persecution."

POLITICS

Argentina to beef up Milei’s security for overseas travel

27-06-2025 13:02 Government will tighten security measures for President Javier Milei abroad against possible Iranian threats given Argentine leader’s support for Israel.

Horror in Córdoba

Córdoba nurse given life sentence for murder of five newborn babies

19-06-2025 16:16 Nurse Brenda Agüero, 29, sentenced to life in prison; Jury deliberated for 10 hours before handing down verdict; Ex-provincial minister Diego Cardozo acquitted and former hospital director Liliana Asís sentenced to five years in prison.

Argentina gun laws

Milei authorises sale of semi-automatic and assault weapons to civilians

18-06-2025 13:18 New presidential decree reverses decades-long restrictions, in place since 1995; Changes follow earlier moves to ease gun ownership rules.

CRIME & SECURITY

Milei announces overhaul of Federal Police’s powers

17-06-2025 23:10 Government moves to grant Federal Police officers greater freedom to detain suspects and investigate crimes; Rights groups express concerns over new statutes.

PRESS FREEDOM

Photographer freed after being violently detained at protest

22-05-2025 15:10 An AFP collaborator, photojournalist Tomas Cuesta, was freed in Buenos Aires Monday after he was detained with three other people at a pensioners' march that saw clashes with police.

CRIME & SECURITY

Argentina applies new ‘anti-mafia law’ in Rosario

16-05-2025 12:49 Milei government applies “anti-mafia law” against organised crime in troubled Santa Fe city; Rosario becomes first place in country to see application of new crime-fighting law.

COURTS

Former Misiones lawmaker sentenced to 14 years in child sex abuse case

17-04-2025 01:20 Germán Kiczka and his brother Sebastián convicted by provincial court of possessing and distributing child sexual abuse material.; Ex-Activar lawmaker handed 14 years in prison, sibling given 12 years for same crimes and sexual abuse of 15-year-old girl.

Crime & Security

La Matanza tops homicide stats in Buenos Aires Province

16-04-2025 14:23 More than 150 murders were recorded in La Matanza last year — 11 more than in 2023.

CRIME & SECURITY

‘I have the weapons’ – Parents alert police to teens’ school shooting plan

04-04-2025 14:39 Group of teens discussed carrying out an armed attack on their school in Ingeniero Maschwitz; Parents alerted police after discovering WhatsApp messages detailing the plan.

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Witness arrested for false testimony at Maradona death trial

25-03-2025 17:39 Julio Coria, Diego Maradona's former bodyguard, detained for false testimony after the court in charge of trial into legendary footballer's death noted contradictions in his statements.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Rights body criticises Milei over policing of protests

20-03-2025 16:53 Inter-American Commission of Human Rights calls on President Javier Milei’s government to guarantee freedom of expression and association as it voices concerns; Weekly pensioners’ protest passes off without major incident.

PENSION PROTEST

Milei government issues public transport threat to demonstators

19-03-2025 11:19 Hours before weekly pension protest, message broadcast at stations across Buenos Aires metropolitan area warns that police “will repress any attempt against the Republic.”

POLITICS – ANALYSIS

Violence and institutional informality

15-03-2025 07:29 There are serious questions as to what happened on the streets outside Congress, but it clearly helped to distract the attention away from what was going on inside Congress and in the troubled port city of Bahía Blanca.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

POLITICS & SECURITY

Bullrich blames photographer’s injuries on ‘those who generate violence’

13-03-2025 23:52 National Security Minister Patricia Bullrich rejects criticism of approach to policing of pensioners’ protest and vows violent acts will be met by “police repression.”

CLASHES WITH SECURITY FORCES

More than 120 detained, 20 injured as pensions protest turns violent

13-03-2025 01:54 Protesting pensioners joined by football supporters for anti-austerity demonstration; Security forces clash with hooligans; 124 detained and at least 20 injured in one of the most violent demonstrations against Milei’s austerity measures.

by Zella Milfred

Foreign policy & diplomacy

Milei to visit Spain, make second trip to Israel

04-03-2025 14:49 President Javier Milei will travel to Tel Aviv on March 23, according to the government; La Libertad Avanza leader hopes to meet PM Netanyahu and ink memorandum on security and defence collaboration.

by James Grainger

CRIME & SECURITY

Milei tells Kicillof to resign over Buenos Aires Province ‘bloodbath’

28-02-2025 15:46 Opposition expresses outrage as President Javier Milei calls on Buenos Aires Province Governor Axel Kicillof to resign in response to shocking killing of seven-year-old.

CRIME & SECURITY

‘Devastated’: Family lays seven-year-old to rest after brutal death

27-02-2025 21:21 Government plans to ramp up efforts to lower age of criminal responsibility after two teenagers kill innocent seven-year-old in car theft gone wrong.

GANG VIOLENCE

In Río de Janeiro, a wrong turn takes paradise to peril

14-02-2025 13:32 Around the corner from Brazil's biggest tourist attractions lie gang-guarded areas where 19 people were shot last year.

GANG VIOLENCE

Ecuador's wild west shows limits of Noboa's 'iron fist'

13-02-2025 14:40 As gang violence kills neighbours and levels homes, frightened residents of Ecuador's Puerto Bolívar coastal city doubt President Noboa's promise of safety.

PRISON POPULATION

Argentina's prison population grew 3.4% last year, says report

11-02-2025 23:33 PROCUVIN institutional violence office highlights overcrowding at federal penitentiaries; More than 11,600 people now behind bars; “Progressive and sustained” increase over the last five years, warns report.

CRIME & SECURITY

Argentina to declare Mapuche group RAM a ‘terrorist organisation’

05-02-2025 14:28 Security Minister targets Facundo Jones Huala, the leader of the RAM indigenous group, over fires in Patagonia and vows to declare it a "terrorist organisation.”

GOVERNMENT & POLITICS

Milei boosts Bullrich’s role in Cabinet reshaping

04-02-2025 14:17 President elevates Security minister’s role in restructuring of government ministries; Bullrich’s portfolio given “national” tag in move to underline importance of role, Press Secretariat abolished.

CRIME & SECURITY

Eruption of organised crime changes Chile’s daily customs

31-01-2025 14:50 Chileans rely on emergency jewellery, armoured cars and word of mouth as organised crime damages nation's reputation as one of the safest countries in Latin America.

FOREIGN POLICY & SECURITY

Argentina may send Armed Forces to beef up Triple Frontier security

30-01-2025 00:35 Border clampdown takes Brazil by surprise, with officials learning of move via media; Security, Defence Ministries fine-tuning details to determine number of troops and where they will be deployed.

Colombia Guerrilla Violence

Colombia tries to contain guerrilla violence that has killed 100

20-01-2025 15:43 A fresh outbreak of guerrilla violence amid a faltering peace process in Colombia has left 100 people dead and thousands displaced.

CRIME & SECURITY

Bullrich announces arrest of ‘terrorist linked to Islamic State’

16-01-2025 09:51 Nine-month investigation ends with arrest of 24-year-old in General Roca; Argentina’s security minister claims that “terrorist represented a concrete threat to national security" and was planning major attacks across nation.

Disappearance of Loan Danilo Peña

Pope voices concern over missing seven-year-old

15-01-2025 13:58 Pontiff expresses fears over disappearance of Loan Danilo Peña, the young boy who went missing in Corrientes seven months ago, noting hypothesis that child was “taken away to extract his organs for transplants.”

CRISIS IN VENEZUELA

Venezuela's 'colectivos' ready to pounce as opposition plans protest

08-01-2025 11:46 Venezuela's 'colectivos,' groups of armed civilian volunteers accused of committing violence on behalf of the Maduro regime, to clampdown on opposition protests.

AMID SCANDAL

Yáñez gives up state security detail amid NYE dinner furore

05-01-2025 10:26 Former first lady Fabiola Yáñez renounces state security detail that was strengthened in wake of her gender violence allegations against ex-president Alberto Fernández; Milei and Bullrich had criticised her use of proection officers, revealing it had cost state at least US$147,000 since last August.

Latin America

Ecuadorean adolescents still missing as search efforts increase

23-12-2024 20:34 President Daniel Noboa orders intensified search for four boys as public outrage grows ahead of elections. Military officials deny involvement.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Amnesty Int’l urges Milei to respect rights after year of ‘confrontation’

19-12-2024 14:18 Data compiled by rights NGO shows more than 1,100 people were injured in protest “repression” during Milei’s first year in office

by James Grainger

Congress & Politics

Entre Ríos lawmaker accused of money-laundering expelled from Senate

13-12-2024 13:29 Entre Ríos Senator Edgardo Kueider expelled from upper house while detained in Paraguay on suspicion of money-laundering; He and other detainee found with more than US$200,000 in cash as he attempted to cross border.

CRIME IN THE CAPITAL

Robberies on the rise in Buenos Aires City, data shows

03-12-2024 15:12 What crimes are on the rise in the City of Buenos Aires? ‘Motochorro’ motorcycle petty theft and home robberies are increasing, with Palermo the most targeted part of the capital.

CRIME & SECURITY

‘Narco-terrorists’ make death threats against security minister, governor

02-12-2024 16:18 Security Minister Patricia Bullrich vows to clamp down on “narco-terrorists” after threats against her and Santa Fe Province Governor Maximilaino Pullaro in video.

Remnants of a coup - Brazil

Brazil arrests four soldiers over alleged 2022 Lula assassination plot

19-11-2024 14:29 Brazilian police arrest four soldiers and a police officer working at G20 summit, for allegedly plotting a coup in 2022 to prevent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from taking office.