Argentina’s president Mauricio Macri has issued a new immigration decree granting law enforcement greater discretion in deporting criminal foreigners, a move that has incensed his Bolivian counterpart Evo Morales and his supporters on the far left.
Thousands gathered in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday to commemorate the second anniversary of the killing of Alberto Nisman, a high-level prosecutor who was found lying in a pool of his own blood the night before he was to accuse former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of aiding Iranian terrorists.
Former Iranian ambassador to Germany, Seyed Hossein Mousavian, described former Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani as a “man of peace.” Between birthing Iran’s nuclear program, oppressing the freedom-craving Iranian people, and orchestrating international terrorist atrocities, Rafsanjani was anything but. Rafsanjani, who
Justin Bieber has reportedly been indicted in Argentina for a 2013 incident in which the pop singer allegedly ordered a bodyguard to beat a photographer and then steal his money.
Venezuelan foreign minister Delcy Rodríguez broke through a barrage of police and economic officials in Buenos Aires, Argentina, earlier this week in an attempt to storm into a meeting of the South American trade bloc Mercosur, which has suspended Venezuela’s membership due to its repeated violations of human rights.
Two Iranian attorneys and their Kenyan driver were arrested in Nairobi, Kenya, and charged Thursday with illegally filming around the nation’s Israeli embassy, gathering film “for the use in the commission of a terrorist act.”
Argentina says it has agreed with Britain to discuss exhuming and identifying Argentines who were buried in the Falklands after being killed in the countries’ 1982 war over the islands.
As many observers have noted, the election of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency is the latest in a series of seismic global political shifts. Many of those have occurred oceans away, from Western Europe to the Middle East to Asia.
Argentina issued another extradition warrant Thursday for an Iranian ex-foreign minister over the deadly bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires in 1994, the government said.
Three men broke into a Catholic convent in Mar del Plata, Argentina, beat, bound, and gagged the five nuns living there, and proceeded to pillage the house—just a week before the sisters’ founder, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, is scheduled to be canonized.
Franco Rodriguez rode his bicycle from his native Cordoba, Argentina, thirty-five hundred kilometers to Rio de Janeiro for the Olympics. He will need a new mode of transportation home as his bike was stolen from Le Hostel inn where he was staying.
An Argentine judge officially requested that Singapore or Malaysia extradite Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and a former foreign minister, for his role in orchestrating a 1994 attack on an Israeli organization.
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) has determined that Venezuela, which has refused to cooperate with the United States’ antiterrorism efforts in the region for nearly a decade, remains a “permissive environment” that promotes ideological and financial support for terrorist organizations, namely Iran’s Lebanese proxy Hezbollah.
The “Bolivarian Revolution” is facing the biggest challenge in its history, as Latin America’s impoverished people turn on their socialist leaders. With Dilma Rousseff out as Brazil’s president and a recall effort started on Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro, Cuba stands to lose friendships it has taken decades to cultivate in the region.
The Copa America is set to take place in the United States this year, and Argentinian television station TyC Sports has created an ad mocking Donald Trump over the fact that many South Americans will be coming into the country because he
Returning from a week-long research trip to South America, Rep. Robert Pittenger (R-NC) tells Breitbart News that intelligence officials in multiple countries have reason to believe that drug trafficking organizations are looking to work with terrorists groups like Hezbollah, but lack the technology to catch illegal money transfers as they happen.
Former President of Argentina Cristina Fernández de Kirchner may be indicted in a sprawling money laundering case should the judge presiding accept federal prosecutor Guillermo Marijuan’s request to bring her into the investigation. Kirchner will be testifying regarding a separate case on Wednesday.
President Barack Obama is dancing and taking in baseball games like he doesn’t have a care in the world, even as the Western world reels from the terror attacks in Brussels, Belgium.
A small collection of leftists organized a grand display in protest of President Obama’s trip to Argentina in Buenos Aires Wednesday, holding up banners reading “Go Home Obama” and burning the American flag.
U.S. President Barack Obama said on Wednesday he did not expect a breakthrough on Middle East peace before he leaves office and reiterated his support for a two-state solution in which Israelis and Palestinians could live peacefully side by side.
Even if Donald Trump becomes the president of the United States, there is a limit to how much he could do as president. That’s the subtle message that President Obama shared with young people in Argentina today during a town hall meeting.
President Barack Obama criticized anti-terrorism statements from Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, saying their proposals are “un-American.”
The Coast Guard of Argentina sunk a Chinese fishing ship trespassing into Argentine waters on Tuesday, after the trawler responded to calls to return to international waters by trying to ram into a Coast Guard vessel, according to the South American government.
“Nisman was killed by a group related to the former government,” the former head of Argentina’s intelligence agency reportedly testified this week, squarely blaming former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her allies for killing a high-profile prosecutor investigating the Iranian government’s role in the nation’s worst terrorist attack ever.
The prosecutor in charge of the investigation into the death of Alberto Nisman has deemed his death a “homicide” and seeks to bring the case to a federal court. Nisman, an Argentine prosecutor investigating Iranian involvement in a 1994 terrorist attack, was found dead of a gunshot wound to the head in his apartment in January 2015.
President Barack Obama confirmed on Twitter Thursday morning that he will visit the rogue communist dictatorship of Cuba in March, more than a year after implementing a series of concessions to the Raúl Castro regime that has enabled it to further oppress political dissent and create a refugee crisis in the Western Hemisphere.
Facing significant shortages of imported insect repellants in light of Latin America’s Zika pandemic, Argentines are turning to an online market selling mosquito-eating frogs and toads to protect their homes from Aedes aegypti, the carrier of Zika, Dengue fever, and Chikungunya.
A year after police found Alberto Nisman’s body in his bathroom, the result of a gunshot wound, thousands of Argentines marched on Buenos Aires demanding justice for the prosecutor who died a day prior to going before the nation’s Congress to accuse the president of protecting Iranian terrorists.
On January 18, 2015, Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found dead, lying in a pool of blood with a gunshot wound to his head. He was to testify the next day that the nation’s president and foreign minister had brokered a deal with the government of Iran to protect the masterminds of the worst terrorist attack in the Western Hemisphere before September 11, 2001. One year later, the newly elected Argentine government – which may attribute its victory largely to the Argentine people’s revulsion at the leftist incumbents’ mismanagement of the Nisman case – have few answers, but vow justice in a case some in the previous administration appeared to hope was a suicide.
Conservative candidate Keiko Fujimori is leading Peru’s presidential election with 32 percent of the vote, according to the latest national polls, signaling a potential shift rightward for yet another South American nation.
Argentina’s new conservative government affirmed on Sunday that it will continue to press the country’s claims to the Falkland Islands, which Britain insists that it owns. Britain and Argentina fought a two-month long war over the archipelago in 1982, in
Argentine President Mauricio Macri has electrified a Mercosur trade bloc summit with the demand that Venezuela release its dozens of political prisoners or face sanctions from the group.
Newly released wiretap audio finds former Foreign Minister of Argentina Héctor Timerman admitting that the government of Iran “planted the bomb” at the Argentine-Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA) headquarters in 1994, the deadliest terror attack in Argentina’s history.
Newly-inaugurated Argentine President Mauricio Macri has established a special Bureau for the Investigation of the AMIA Bombing to investigate Iranian suspects linked to the 1994 terrorist attack on a Jewish center that left 85 people dead, and the shooting of a prosecutor investigating it more than 20 years later.
With right-wing Argentine President-elect Mauricio Macri set to assume his position as head of state on Thursday, outgoing President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has become a major stress point in the transition, issuing multiple decrees, spending government money, and arguing over the details of the inauguration ceremony.
NEW YORK, New York – The last word spoken in Los Abandonados, a documentary detailing the multiple investigations of the worst terrorist attack in Argentina’s history and the death of the prosecutor who believed he had found the truth, is “no.”
Britain’s David Cameron and Argentina’s president-elect Mauricio Macri (pictured above) agreed to “strengthen relations” between their countries after a phone call Thursday, Downing Street said. Britain and Argentina have long had tense ties due to their territorial dispute over the
The Venezuelan government has accused Argentine President-Elect Mauricio Macri of “taking orders from the United States” following the conservative head of state to-be’s proposal to sanction Venezuela economically over human rights abuses against political dissidents.
In a seismic defeat for Latin America’s left, conservative Buenos Aires mayor Mauricio Macri has been elected president of Argentina. While the transition out of leftist Cristina Fernández de Kircher’s tenure will hurt many of the nation’s questionable alliances, none appears more fragile now than the ties Kircher fostered with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The first political shock following the Paris bombings is the Argentine presidential election of conservative Mauricio Macri over the Peronist/Marxist ruling regime.
