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Spain Battles Wildfires and Montoro Probe as Argentina’s Peronists Rush to Meet Candidate Deadline

A seven-year probe in Tarragona has been unsealed to examine allegations that Cristóbal Montoro steered fiscal decisions in exchange for consultancy contracts.

Mariano Bonetto fue condenado a prisión perpetua por matar en 2016 a Natalia Grenbenshicova y Nuria Couto en La Boca
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El show del Circo Ánima se llama "Abre tus alas" y cuenta la historia de tres cazadores de tormentas que son llamados por una voz suprema para enfrentar las fuerzas de la naturaleza
Unas 500 personas participan en una manifestación para condenar el incendio que calcinó el centro islámico del municipio

Overview

  • Argentina’s Supreme Court is considering an appeal by victims’ families after neighbors filmed Diego Bonetto—ruled inimputable in 2022—attending a Córdoba football match, galvanizing safety concerns under the 2009 Mental Health Law.
  • Spanish crews have contained a six-hectare grass fire in Juancalillo, Gran Canaria, and local residents in Calypo Fado used garden hoses to repel advancing flames as authorities maintain level-2 monitoring.
  • A level-2 forest fire near Navaluenga (Ávila) prompted the evacuation of 60 children from a summer camp, assisted by the UME and regional brigades working overnight to secure the perimeter.
  • Peronist leaders in Buenos Aires, including factions led by Axel Kicillof, Sergio Massa and Máximo Kirchner, are in fractious negotiations to finalize candidate lists by tonight’s midnight deadline for the September 7 elections.
  • In Tarragona, investigators have lifted secrecy on a seven-year judicial inquiry that names former finance minister Cristóbal Montoro and 28 others under active suspicion for allegedly trading public treasury decisions for consultancy contracts.