Yesterday, Agustín Rossi, head of the Federal Intelligence Agency, filed a lawsuit against two of Argentina’s most prominent media outlets – Clarín and La Nación – and two of their journalists, respectively, alleging they violated the Intelligence Act after they published confidential information provided by the Agency to …
President Alberto Fernández and allied governors this morning presented Congress with a request to impeach the four Supreme Court justices, Horacio Rosatti, Carlos Rosenkratz, Juan Carlos Maqueda and Ricardo Lorenzetti. They allege that the Court overstepped its competence in the federal tax share ruling and colluded with the …
Buenos Aires City’s Justice and Security minister Marcelo D’Alessandro has announced that he will take a leave of absence after a second series of chats allegedly leaked from his phone appeared to show him illegally negotiating with high-ranking public officials. However, he denied that this leave is actually …
The former CEO of Syngenta for South America, Antonio Aracre, will serve as chief presidential advisor starting February 1. After working for 36 years in the agribusiness company, Aracre decided to retire from the private sector and “dream about new challenges,” he tweeted last October. Yesterday, Aracre met …
President Alberto Fernández has announced that he will seek to impeach Supreme Court President Horacio Rosatti, with the support of allied governors. He also said he would order the Justice Minister to investigate alleged corruption between Buenos Aires City government officials and local contractors and businessmen. In a …
With New Year around the corner, the government will have to replace three key positions following the resignations of the heads of the anti-discrimination institute, National Mint, and Anti-Corruption Office. This Thursday, Victoria Donda resigned as chairwoman of the National Institute Against Discrimination, Racism and Xenophobia (INADI), a …
On Tuesday, vice-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner accused the judiciary of timing legal action against her to nix her electoral chances. It was her first public speech since being handed a six-year prison sentence and a ban on holding public office in the Vialidad case on December 6. …
Buenos Aires mayor and opposition figurehead, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, has appointed top economist Martín Redrado to his team in a move signalling his possible cabinet lineup if he were to win the 2023 presidential elections. Redrado will join his government in the newly-created role of Secretary of Strategic …
The Argentine Industrial Union (UIA) and the US Chamber of Commerce in Argentina (AmCham) have criticized declarations by the national government last week that it would not comply with a Supreme Court ruling to restore a greater share of tax funding to Buenos Aires city. AmCham said in …
