Overview

• Police searched José Luis Espert’s home and his congressional office under court orders after the Chamber of Deputies authorized measures in the probe of alleged US$200,000 transfers from detained businessman Fred Machado.
• The government appealed Judge Alejo Ramos Padilla’s decision placing Karen Reichardt atop La Libertad Avanza’s Buenos Aires ticket, sending the dispute to the National Electoral Chamber, which faces tight deadlines and major logistical hurdles to any late list change.
• After changes in the lower house, the reform of the Decrees of Necessity and Urgency law returned to the Senate, while President Javier Milei’s campaign stop in San Rafael, Mendoza, drew protests and a large security deployment.
• Peru’s Congress invited Prime Minister Eduardo Arana and the full cabinet to appear at 3 p.m. and Fuerza Popular announced an interpellation motion against Interior Minister Carlos Malaver following the Agua Marina shooting; the Interior Ministry said the concert lacked required guarantees.
• In Mexico, the Michoacán Congress approved in general a new organic law for the State Attorney General’s Office with 33 votes in favor after a heated, expedited debate, as opposition parties flagged constitutional and human-rights concerns.