Overview
- The policy sets five strategic interests and ten guidelines, prioritizing cyber defense, Malvinas and Antarctic projection, counterintelligence, terrorism and organized crime.
- It authorizes intelligence bodies to identify, recognize, monitor and analyze influence operations to defend so‑called cognitive sovereignty, a scope opposition figures say could enable spying on critics.
- The decree empowers monitoring of risks to strategic natural resources and related value chains, prompting warnings that authorities could justify intervention in protests or strikes.
- The measure instructs the State Intelligence Secretariat (SIDE) to draft the next National Intelligence Strategy following recent leadership changes, including Sergio Neiffert’s exit and Cristian Auguadra’s appointment.
- The framework cites exposure to transnational terrorist networks linked to the Middle East at border areas and to criminal groups exploiting porous frontiers and informal financial circuits, and lawmakers seek hearings to review the text.