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Weekly Report - 19 October 2017 (WR-17-41)
ARGENTINA: Explosive end to electoral campaign
Just five days before Argentina’s much-anticipated mid-term federal congressional elections on 22 October a body was discovered in a river in the southern province of Chubut. It was found very close to where the pro-Mapuche activist Santiago Maldonado was last seen 77 days ago. On the same day a federal judge ordered that the federal lower chamber of congress strip Deputy Julio de Vido of his immunity from prosecution to face investigation for corruption, and that he should subsequently be placed under preventive detention. De Vido was the most powerful figure in the cabinet under the three Kirchnerista governments (2003-2015), serving for 12 years as planning minister. Both developments have the potential to influence the electoral outcome this weekend.
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