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Kirchner Seeks Recusal of Supreme Court Justice as High-Profile Probes and Narco Clashes Escalate

Cristina Kirchner’s bid to disqualify a Supreme Court justice captures the heightening legal clashes, reflecting broader security turmoil in Argentina’s pre-election environment

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Los gobernadores se reúnen en el CFI

Overview

  • Cristina Kirchner formally requested to recuse Justice Ricardo Lorenzetti in her Vialidad case and convened Peronist senators to chart a strategy ahead of potential rulings
  • Federal prosecutor Eugenia Callegaris asked for preventive detention of nurse Macarena Monetti Giménez in the death of Patricia Leyría with autopsy results still pending
  • A judge in Buenos Aires processed a Loreto-based tire repairman for his alleged role in an international child-pornography network involving 36 Argentines
  • Cartel factions Los Salazar and Los Mata Salas intensified their Sonora turf war with fresh narcomanta threats and targeted raids, according to state prosecutors
  • The San Isidro Federal Court ordered the release of three activists accused in the José Luis Espert scrache case, coinciding with Unión por la Patria protests against councilwoman Eva Mieri’s detention at Ezeiza prison