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Security Ministry Restores Ramón Falcón and Alberto Villar Names to Argentina's Federal Police Schools

Bullrich frames the move as part of an institutional reordering centered on training, discipline, authority, equipment.

Overview

  • Security Minister Patricia Bullrich announced the renaming during a ceremony at the Plaza de Armas of the PFA Cadet School.
  • The officer training institute will again be called Coronel Ramón Falcón, and the subofficer school will carry the name Comisario General Alberto Villar.
  • The decision reverses a 2011 change instituted by then–security minister Nilda Garré and replaces the Cadet School’s current designation honoring Juan Ángel Pirker.
  • Bullrich said she was instructing the PFA chief to “return the truth,” presenting the change as a non‑negotiable value within a broader institutional overhaul.
  • Falcón led the police in the early 1900s before being killed in 1909 by anarchist Simón Radowitzky, while Villar, then PFA chief, was killed in 1974 in a Montoneros bombing.