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What You Need to Know: Two Argentinians, aged 61 and 53, have been arrested following an investigation into threats sent to the US Ambassador to Argentina Marc Stanley and his family in November 2023. Late last year, two phone calls were made to the US embassy, the first in which the caller shouted “death to everyone in the embassy and...

What You Need to Know: An Argentine court announced on Friday its intent to reopen a case of crimes against humanity against Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro and Disodado Cabello, Deputy of Venezuela’s National Assembly. The accusation pertains to a bout of anti-government protests which occurred in Venezuela in February 2014, where the aforementioned men authorized security forces to respond to...

On April 5, the administration of Argentinian President Javier Milei announced that they are interested in inspecting a satellite communication base that the Chinese government legally built in Argentinian territory, as reported by the Buenos Aires Times.  As part of the deal, Argentinian scientists and researchers can utilize the site's 16-story antenna for 10% of its operating time. This is...

The Argentine government denounced the cutting of power to the nation's embassy in Venezuela on Tuesday, stating that the cutting of power in connection with shielding political opponents was a violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. The Siege of an Embassy: Power was suddenly cut in the embassy on Monday after the embassy accepted six members of the political...

Speaking with CNN, Argentina President Milei called Colombian President Petro a “terrorist killer” in an interview with journalist Andrés Oppenheimer to be broadcasted this Sunday, March 31st on that network. He said: “You can't expect much from someone who was a terrorist killer…” As a response, Colombia recalled its Ambassador and expelled the Argentine ambassador and other diplomats. This is the...