Overview
- Two consecutive phone calls warning of explosives prompted a preventive evacuation of the Ministry of Economy, with staff ordered out after 3 p.m. on Monday.
- The Policía Federal and the specialized bomb squad deployed trained dogs and carried out a room-by-room inspection of the central building and its Balcarce annex.
- Authorities had not reported finding any suspicious devices at the time of the latest updates and were continuing technical checks before allowing a phased return.
- Minister Luis Caputo was at the ministry after meeting former Colombian president Iván Duque when the alert activated and staff were moved to Plaza de Mayo and nearby ARCA corridors because of rain.
- Investigators are focused on identifying who made the two calls to determine whether the incident was a false alarm, and the response follows established PFA and bomb-squad protocols used in earlier alerts.