Overview
- Argentina’s Security Ministry offered a 20 million peso reward on Friday for information leading to Galvarino Apablaza’s arrest, citing national and international warrants for homicide and kidnapping.
- Federal police and Interpol tried to detain him at his home in Moreno this week on a judge’s order for extradition, did not find him, and he is now listed as a fugitive.
- In February 2026, a federal chamber confirmed the revocation of his refugee status, and Judge María Servini then ordered his detention so he can be handed over to Chilean authorities.
- Chilean officials said they are sharing information with Buenos Aires and asked for intensified searches, as a planned handover was to send him to Santiago’s High Security Prison to face trial.
- Apablaza, a former leader of the Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front, is accused in Chile of directing the 1991 killing of Senator Jaime Guzmán and the kidnapping of businessman Cristián Edwards, while his lawyer argues the refugee case is still under judicial review and calls recent surveillance of his family harassment.