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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 27 January 2017

ARGENTINA: Intelligence chief battles corruption charges

The new year may be just a few weeks old, but the Argentine government led by President Mauricio Macri is already grappling with corruption allegations affecting a top government official and one of Macri’s most trusted aides. Gustavo Arribas, the head of Argentina’s federal intelligence agency (AFI), is now the subject of a formal investigation over his suspected involvement in a bribery case embroiling the Brazilian engineering firm Odebrecht. The case has the potential to be damaging for Macri, who vowed to combat government corruption during his 2015 electoral campaign, as Argentina prepares to hold mid-term legislative elections in October, in which Macri needs the ruling centre-right Cambiemos coalition to perform well to ensure governability for the next two years.

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