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Argentine Worker Reported Missing in Brazil Found Safe After Week of Silence

Police attribute the lapse in contact to a lost phone, ending a cross-border search prompted by her family's report.

Overview

  • Lurdes Leonor Rodríguez, 25, reestablished contact from Florianópolis and confirmed she is in good health.
  • She called her mother on December 4 by video, said her phone failed on November 26, and confirmed she remains in Jurerê living with coworker Luan Gómez.
  • Her mother, Viviana Beatriz Verón, had filed a missing-person report in Chaco after a week without communication.
  • The case was classified as a presumed disappearance and the General San Martín Prosecutor’s Office activated international cooperation with Brazilian authorities.
  • After the video call, the family asked to deactivate the alert and prosecutors ordered the file closed under the international cooperation protocol.