Overview

• President Javier Milei presented the integrated reform with Security Minister Patricia Bullrich and Justice Minister Mariano Cúneo Libarona at the Ezeiza federal prison, framing it as a zero‑tolerance security push.
• The proposal replaces the 1921 Penal Code by consolidating more than a thousand special laws, expanding the text from 316 to roughly 920 articles and standardizing penalties and procedures.
• The draft establishes life sentences without conditional release for serious crimes, makes several offenses imprescriptible, restricts parole, and allows prison terms of up to 40 years for multiple recidivists.
• It adds modern offenses including AI‑enabled cybercrimes, stealthing, revenge porn, virtual kidnapping, environmental crimes, cruelty to animals and pyramid schemes, and introduces anticipatory confiscation of criminal assets.
• The text strengthens presumptions protecting actions by security forces under duty or legitimate defense, proposes lowering the age of criminal responsibility to 13, and increases sanctions for corruption including new provisions tied to fiscal balance.