The time at which the decree was published, in the early hours of Friday, December 2, says a lot about its controversial content. Through DNU 941/25, Javier Milei decided to reformulate the Intelligence Law and grant the libertarian SIDE discretionary power that was already objected to by jurists and political leaders of the opposition.
According to the new regulations, Government spies will be able to arrest – without a court order – any citizen who they consider to be conspiring against national security. It is a terrible novelty that seems to inaugurate a police State that overrides Justice and the Constitution and overwhelms the most basic individual freedoms. Any opponent, businessman, judge or journalist can end up behind bars if the SIDE wishes.
Two weeks ago, NOTICIAS dedicated its cover to an investigation into Milei’s Intelligence Secretariat and anticipated the controversial idea. After the anecdote of a new head of the SIDE who became famous for publishing on the networks a flood of selfies about his private life – and even personal data of his family -, what is truly worrying are these excesses that are now enshrined in the President’s DNU.
The deputies Mónica Frade and Maximiliano Ferraro, from the Civic Coalition, and Esteban Paulón, from the Socialist Party, at this time presented an action for protection and a precautionary measure for Justice to suspend the effects of the decree, which they classify as “unconstitutional.” Also in the Senate, the Peronist bloc issued a statement that repudiates the Government’s initiative. “This demonstrates once again President Milei’s contempt for the institutions of the Republic and is a clear attempt to advance democratic freedoms,” they stressed.
That the event occurs simultaneously with news like Donald Trump interfering in the internal politics of another country and arresting its president without much explanation shows what the climate of the time is: the law of the strongest, whether the rest like it or not. And this is just beginning.
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