Javier Milei é retirado às pressas de uma carreata da campanha eleitoral após ser alvo de pedras e garrafas atiradas pela população. pic.twitter.com/Ty8auucvSf

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 The confrontation unfolded in Lomas de Zamora, south of Buenos Aires – a historic bastion of the Peronist movement representing the primary opposition to Milei. The president was standing in an open pickup vehicle alongside his sister, Karina, and his chief of staff, as crowds started hurling rocks, bottles, and assorted items toward them. At the same time, clashes erupted between his backers and detractors, with cries of "Out Milei" audible throughout.

At the very least, one rock struck the truck's hood, as additional projectiles passed over Milei and the security staff members. The president had to rapidly crouch inside the truck, and the driver sped up, attempting to flee – interrupting the scheduled campaign gathering. During the turmoil, Congressman José Luis Espert was observed escaping on a motorcycle without wearing a helmet.

Trading blame

Presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni blamed backers of former president Cristina Kirchner for the assault, labeling the protesters "militants from outdated politics" displaying "a primitive violence pattern from bygone eras." Security Minister Patricia Bullrich alleged Kirchner's faction "coordinated an assault on the president while jeopardizing the citizens and households who arrived to support him."

Kirchner, found guilty of corruption in June and currently under home confinement, remains regarded as the most powerful figure within the anti-Milei opposition, even though she has been excluded from political activities.

Assault emerges during corruption claims

The accusations risk implicating the president's closest associates. In an audio leak from the previous week, the director of the disability support agency is allegedly heard detailing a kickback scheme that allegedly benefits Milei's sister, Karina, and her consultant. The supposed scheme made the agency's service provision contingent upon payments to a drug firm, which channeled portions of earnings to Milei's family members.

Following this, Diego Spangouolo was dismissed, the agency director and Milei's former attorney, who was allegedly recorded alerting the president to the kickback operation emerging within his administration.

Milei, who managed to drastically lower inflation levels, is gearing up for legislative midterm votes coming in October. He aims to bolster his strength in both parliamentary chambers in what is viewed as the initial ballot box challenge of his transformative administration.

The present controversy may especially harm the president, who gained office riding widespread outrage over graft within Argentina's political class, combined with difficult sentiments from segments of citizens affected by his stringent fiscal policies.

Milei posted subsequently, including an image of the rock aimed at him: "Civilization or barbarism, never again Kirchnerism. The end."

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Basso argues that Khamenei is "the main supporter of groups like Hezbollah" and personally appointed "Hezbollah's secretary-general as his representative in Lebanon." The prosecutor bases his case on the Iranian constitution, which establishes Khamenei as responsible for setting state policy and serving as the supreme commander of Iran's armed forces with control over intelligence operations – which an Argentine court previously determined were involved in executing the attacks.

Regarding Khamenei's immunity as a head of state, Basso claims that "Khamenei does not have immunity from responsibility for a crime with terrorist characteristics and against humanity."

It should be noted that the previous prosecutor on the case, Alberto Nisman, was murdered in 2015 before he was due to testify to Congress about the cover-up of Iran's involvement in the attack. The New York Times reported that Nisman had prepared arrest warrants against then-Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, accusing her of reaching an agreement with Iranian authorities to cover up Iranian involvement in the attacks.

The bombing of the AMIA Jewish community building in Argentina was a suicide attack that occurred in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, on July 18, 1994, when a Lebanese terrorist detonated an explosive planted in a car bomb, killing 85 people and wounding 330. Two years earlier, an attack against the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires killed 29 people and injured 220. Hezbollah attributed the attacks to revenge for the assassination of the organization's then-secretary-general, Abbas Musawi.

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The competition, open to all, has attracted hundreds of applicants - some professionals, others youngsters dancing from lockdown in their homes. A panel of renowned expert judges assess each dance, and viewers can also vote with "likes."

"We were struck by the desire of participants to be seen, to express themselves and their dance, what is happening to them at the moment," said Argentine Facundo Luqui, who organized the '@stayhomedancecompetition' event with two other dancers.

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"What we thought when we started this project was that anyone can participate," added Luqui, 23, who is a member of the ballet company at Buenos Aires' iconic Teatro Colón.

The competition, which wraps up on Sunday, challenged dancers to raise awareness about the pandemic, reference the coronavirus, and honor an artist. In one video, a mother wearing a doctor's coat and a mask guards her daughter while she dances.

Giovana Soria, 18, a Paraguayan who has studied Latin rhythms for two years, said her dance was to encourage people to take steps to prevent infections spreading.

"I started to watch the news and saw that many people respected the quarantine, but when going out they did not take measures like putting on a mask, they touched everything and didn't wash their hands," said Soria.

Paz Schattenhofer, an 11-year-old who studies classical dance and who took part from Buenos Aires, said her performance was a homage to Russian photographer Yulia Artemyeva, who made a series of works comparing ballerinas to flowers.

"I would love to win it, but in reality it's to have fun. It is great when people 'like' you and that people see me, it is like a stage," she said.

Performance art globally has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, closing theaters and leaving dance troupes unable to perform or rehearse at close quarters.

"I think dance at the moment is undergoing a great crisis," said Manuela Lavalle, 24, another of the organizers, who dances in a company in the United States but is passing the quarantine in his native Buenos Aires.

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"It's complicated because many companies do not have the money they need to get by. I believe the world of dance is going to change a lot and we still do not know how, but it is a matter of waiting and continuing to create in the meantime."

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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo attended a Latin America counter-terrorism conference last week that focused on Iran and Hezbollah and coincided with the date of the bombing at the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA) building on July 18, 1994. At the commemoration, Pompeo blamed Iran for causing the death of so many victims, saying, "They were killed by members of a terrorist group, Hezbollah, and had help that day from Iran."

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The US focus on Iran and Hezbollah has been welcomed by those who understand the gravity of the threat they pose in Latin America.

Emmanuel Navon, a foreign-policy expert at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, told JNS that he was pleased the Americans are finally discussing this.

Navon said the Obama administration "kind of looked the other way in order to sign a deal with Iran because one of the conditions to sign the JCPOA in 2015 was not to lift a finger on its presence and the presence of its proxy Hezbollah in South America. According to many reports, [President Barack] Obama agreed to that."

"Of course, the current administration has a completely different approach having pulled out of the deal, and is much more determined to fight the Iranian and Hezbollah presence in South America," he noted.

'A year of diplomacy working with Argentina'

Emanuele Ottolenghi, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies who is focused on Hezbollah's Latin America illicit threat networks, told JNS that the United States is more significantly involved than it has been in a long time.

Ottolenghi noted that the summit that Pompeo attended "is the result of a long year of patient diplomacy working with Argentina," which just this month froze Hezbollah's assets, essentially designating it a terrorist organization. "There is also, of course, hope and work being done to see that other countries in the region will do the same. It's not a one-off."

Additionally, Ottolenghi said that the United States is also involved by "investing in training, dialogue and cooperation between law enforcement and judicial branches of government in the region to help those countries understand the problem better, recognize it and take more decisive action."

He added that the United States is also conducting increased investigations and prosecutions against alleged Hezbollah facilitators in Latin America.

"When you take these three things – the political, the capacity-building and the prosecution, the investigative side – you definitely have a lot more [American] attention than you have ever had before," said Ottolenghi.

At the same time, the situation in Venezuela surrounding the Nicolás Maduro regime and the challenge that he faces from opposition leader Juan Guaidó, have given hope to some who want to see an ally in place who can help push out Iran and Hezbollah  from the region altogether.

Arie Kacowicz, from the Hebrew University's Department of International Relations, told JNS that Maduro's regime "is a kind of criminal regime that has networks and relations with Hezbollah."

He said it makes sense for Israel to align itself with other Western liberal democracies in Europe, and not only with the United States, to support Guaidó and the opposition in their attempt to change the regime in Venezuela by peaceful means. Kacowicz pointed out that "the unseating of the Maduro regime might mean a relative failure for the presence of Hezbollah in Latin America."

Turning to Israel, Ottolenghi said that the Israeli government has sought to build better relations with regional governments for years and has succeeded so far with some Central American countries.

He pointed out that Israel does not have as many resources to invest in Latin America as the United States does, "so there is a challenge in the ability of Israel to do more on this front."

He added that there is "more action on the law-enforcement level of cooperation to try and go after the main source of Hezbollah's finances in Latin America, which is cooperation with the cartels, money-laundering and drug-trafficking."

Navon said the Jewish nation is in touch with friendly governments, such as Argentina, Brazil and Colombia, to fight Hezbollah especially in the tri-border area of Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil, and, of course, coordinates that with the Trump administration.

Nevertheless, a major obstacle to fighting Iran and Hezbollah lies with the unwillingness of the European Union to recognize Hezbollah for the terror organization that it is.

Ottolenghi said that the European Union looks at Hezbollah's military and political wings as two separate entities, "which, in fact, they are not," he adamantly said.

He noted, however, that the United Kingdom and the Netherlands have indeed designated Hezbollah as a terror organization in its entirety. "Obviously, if the EU could up the ante, that would be good," he said.

Moving forward, there is still some hope to get the Europeans on board. Germany has recently discussed blacklisting Hezbollah, and there is a growing recognition that a lot of these drug-trafficking networks that bring cocaine mainly from Latin America rely on Lebanese criminals to launder money and growing recognition that some of these people may be connected to Hezbollah."

Reprinted with permission from JNS.org.

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Raffo, 88, had been battling an illness and was found at home on Monday. He left a note saying "I can't handle the pain" and then shot himself, local reports said. No foul play is suspected.

Nisman was found dead in 2015 just hours before he was due to appear in Congress to present evidence that then-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner plotted to whitewash Iran's involvement in the bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires 25 years ago.

Raffo, as a highly respected pathologist in Argentina, had significant sway on public opinion when he stated that Nisman's death was no accident or suicide. This cast doubt on the official version of events undermined  Kirchner and contributed heavily to a court ruling that Nisman was indeed murdered.

Kirchner, now a senator, was indicted for treason over Nisman's allegations. Prosecutors allege that she worked behind the scenes to clear Iran of the blame for the AMIA attack, which killed 85 people, in an effort to normalize relations and clinch a 2013 grain-for-oil deal with Tehran.

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