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Legal Fallout Deepens in Mexico Senate Melee and Argentina ANDIS Audio Scandal

Both cases now shift from viral confrontations to formal action by prosecutors.

Overview

  • In Mexico City, video shows PRI leader Alejandro ‘Alito’ Moreno confronting Senate president Gerardo Fernández Noroña at the close of the Comisión Permanente, with the Ministerio Público taking statements on-site after blows and shoves on the tribune.
  • Fernández Noroña said he will file criminal complaints for injuries and property damage and will seek the desafuero of Moreno and other PRI legislators, with an extraordinary session of the Permanent Commission called to review the incident.
  • A collaborator of Fernández Noroña, Emiliano González, was shoved to the floor and, according to footage, kicked; PRI deputies Erubiel Alonso and Carlos Gutiérrez were named in the scuffle as equipment damage and threats were reported.
  • In Argentina, federal justice raided ex-ANDIS chief Diego Spagnuolo’s home, seized phones, documents and a bill counter, and imposed travel bans on him, an ex-ANDIS official and businessmen from the Kovalivker family, as the agency remains intervened with audits under way.
  • President Javier Milei publicly rejected Spagnuolo’s audio claims and said he will take him to court, while tensions inside the ruling space spilled into Congress in a shouting match between deputies Marcela Pagano and Lilia Lemoine that Pagano followed by posting a screenshot of their chat.