Overview

• National and city negotiators are refining a draft that would move detainees from Buenos Aires police lockups and transfer competencies over the federal prison service via an executive agreement or decree.
• The working text envisions handing over a pavilion in Ezeiza and a sector in Marcos Paz, deactivating Devoto, and transferring personnel and funds to the city to address severe overcrowding in local alcaidías.
• Official data cited in the talks report 2,403 people held in Buenos Aires City stations and lockups, with most processed rather than convicted and a majority detained for property crimes.
• The Buenos Aires City Legislature is advancing bills to create a local penitentiary system and an execution-of-sentences framework to provide legal footing for any transfer.
• In parallel developments, Mexico’s PAN deputy Federico Döring filed a formal FGR complaint alleging fiscal fuel theft involving Morena figures, and Spain’s PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo boycotted the judicial-year opening over the attendance of a prosecuted attorney general, while Argentina’s lower house stalled an opposition push to form a fentanyl inquiry commission.