Overview

• Argentine security forces, including Gendarmería and federal police under orders from Security Minister Patricia Bullrich, encircled Congress with fences, water cannons and tear gas, leading to clashes with disability rights protesters and journalists.
• Opposition deputies in Buenos Aires held an overnight session on August 7 to pass emergency pediatric healthcare funding, a national Alzheimer plan and the reactivation of the $LIBRA investigative commission despite attempts by the government bloc to break quorum.
• Opposition lawmakers deployed theatrical protest tactics in legislative sessions, with Esteban Paulón unfurling a satirical poster mocking the La Libertad Avanza–PRO pact in Argentina and PAN senators using megaphones and gifting an empty chamomile tea box in Mexico.
• Morena’s Organizational Secretary Andy López Beltrán denied espionage allegations tied to his self-funded Tokyo vacation, insisting he traveled commercially and paid his own expenses after adversaries claimed he used private or military flights.
• Mexican Chamber of Deputies President Sergio Gutiérrez Luna requested an indefinite leave beginning August 1 amid a protected data dispute and social media exposés of luxury purchases, naming Roberto Mejía Méndez as his substitute.