Overview
- Guerrero state prosecutors opened a missing‑person case for Juan Vega Arredondo, a hospital director and father of Taxco’s mayor, activated search protocols and recovered his car near Acamixtla after armed men seized him on the Taxco–Cuernavaca road.
- Judicial authorities in Bahía Blanca carried out seven searches and seized phones in a new line of inquiry into alleged false testimony and cover‑up tied to the 2023 Bahiense del Norte collapse, focusing on court expert Enrique Gil as phone audios hint at efforts to soften structural findings.
- Peruvian police presented detainees in the killing of pediatrician Minoska Pinto, citing a confession from the motorcycle driver and pointing to her husband as the suspected mastermind, while his defense filed habeas corpus after his detention was recorded for illegal possession of SIM cards rather than homicide.
- At Spain’s Supreme Court, a former Transport Ministry official testified that adviser Koldo García pressed to double an initial mask order in March 2020 with the message “eight million or nothing,” after which a new order signed minutes later increased the purchase during emergency no‑bid contracting.
- Argentina’s government is preparing a legal and political response for Chief of Cabinet Manuel Adorni’s April appearance in Congress, with top allies signaling support as prosecutors probe his assets and lenders testify that a private $100,000 apartment loan still has about $70,000 outstanding.