Overview
- Decree 941/2025 was published in the Boletín Oficial, immediately amending Law 25.520 and centralizing strategic direction, budgets and reserved funds under the SIDE.
- All intelligence activities are now classified as covert, and agents may apprehend people by judicial order or in cases of flagrancy with immediate notification to the competent security forces.
- The overhaul renames and restructures key organs, creating the Agencia Nacional de Contrainteligencia and the Agencia Federal de Ciberinteligencia, and establishing a National Cybersecurity Center under the Cabinet.
- The reform dissolves the National Directorate of Strategic Military Intelligence and transfers military strategic intelligence to the Armed Forces’ Joint Chiefs to reduce overlaps.
- The government framed the package as modernization and rationalization, while opposition blocs sought Bicameral Commission review with an eye to challenging or annulling the decree.