FILE PHOTO: Argentina's President Javier Milei looks on as he meets with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken (not pictured) at the Casa Rosada Presidential Palace, in Buenos Aires, Argentina February 23, 2024. REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian/Pool/File Photo
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's right-wing government is planning to send a new bill to Congress that would seek to allow the military to take an active role in domestic security operations under certain conditions, a senior security official said on Thursday.
The bill, which would need the backing of a fragmented congress where libertarian President Javier Milei controls only a minority of seats, would be a shift for the country where the military is restricted to a support role in domestic operations.
"We are modifying the internal security law to allow the Armed Forces to intervene and carry out internal security operations," defence minister Luis Petri said, citing examples such as drug gang related violence in farm hub city Rosario.
(Reporting by Eliana Raszewski and Lucila Sigal; Writing by Adam Jourdan)
