Overview
- Authorities say a Bolivian-registered light aircraft crashed near Rosario de la Frontera while attempting to land on a clandestine strip.
- Security forces detained two suspected pilots during an escape attempt at a bus terminal and ultimately seized 364 kilograms of cocaine, much of it buried.
- Gustavo Sáenz thanked the Provincial Police, Gendarmería, PSA, Rural Police, and prosecutor Dr. Villalba, highlighting coordinated provincial–federal work.
- The governor argues current federal presence along Salta’s 700-plus kilometers of frontier is not enough, pressing for a Ley de Derribo and comprehensive radarization as Congress weighs the request.
- Local reporting notes packages marked with a Prada logo, a label seen in prior trafficking cases, while a libertarian leader backs reviving shoot-down rules previously applied under a 2016 protocol.