Overview
- Hernán Bermúdez Requena, extradited from Paraguay and held in the El Altiplano prison, was linked to a forced disappearance case over the weekend with a two-month window set for further investigation.
- In Spain, the Supreme Court opened José Luis Ábalos’s mask-contract trial on Tuesday, with the first testimonies read and Anticorruption seeking up to 24 years in prison.
- The court read written statements from Congress president Francina Armengol and minister Ángel Víctor Torres, who each denied steering mask purchases tied to the alleged scheme.
- In Santa Fe, Argentina, a judge admitted Víctor Strada as a private accuser in his son’s homicide case, and his legal team said they will fight any bid to ease the accused’s preventive detention.
- In Salta’s El Tipal femicide trial, the court granted an urgent order to shield the couple’s children from public identification as testimony described financial control and fear inside the home.