Overview
- The Secretariat of State Intelligence inaugurated the National Counterterrorism Center with the U.S. ambassador, Peter Lamelas, and FBI representatives in attendance.
- The center’s mission is to centralize terrorism‑related intelligence sharing with foreign partners and with domestic agencies that oversee defense, security, justice, foreign affairs, finance, customs, and migration.
- Created by Decree 717/2025, the body can request information from public and private entities, assess threats, set strategy and protocols, issue internal rules, and propose new legislation.
- Subsecretary José Lago Rodríguez said the FBI’s participation marks Argentina’s return to major cooperation frameworks and called the launch the first concrete step in 25 years after the 1992 and 1994 attacks.
- The rollout comes as Buenos Aires deepens ties with Washington, including a recent trade accord and U.S.-backed work on a high-security disease lab.