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Twin Trials Test Argentina’s Justice: Forensics Lead Sena Jury as Cuadernos Case Opens

Both proceedings spotlight strained courts alongside intensifying polarization.

Overview

  • In Resistencia, expert testimony mapped Cecilia Strzyzowski’s and César Sena’s phones from the Sena home toward Campo Rossi and linked César’s Google account, used under an alias, to searches about violence and remorse.
  • Police and court witnesses said CCTV showed Cecilia entering the Sena residence on June 2, 2023 and not leaving alive, reported ashes and possible bone fragments at a search site, and verified there were no tickets to Ushuaia.
  • After objections over a leaked audio, the judge instructed jurors to consider only evidence presented at trial, with 19 of an expected 53 witnesses heard to date.
  • Defense lawyer Nicolás Boniardi Cabra surrendered and was detained over an allegation he threatened a forensic expert and filmed jurors, following earlier charges tied to courtroom disruption and the seizure of his phone.
  • In Buenos Aires, the Cuadernos corruption trial began against Cristina Kirchner and more than 80 co-defendants, with initial sessions read over Zoom, a multi‑year timetable and hundreds of witnesses expected, and reactions split between government calls for accountability and Peronist claims of a judicial show.