Weekly Report - 19 November 2009 (WR-09-46)

News of a domestic spying scandal broke this week which could cause irrevocable damage to the presidential ambitions of the mayor of Buenos Aires, Mauricio Macri. The head of the fledgling metropolitan police force, Osvaldo Chamorro, was dismissed and the man he recently replaced, Jorge Palacios, arrested for allegedly participating in a spy ring. This began with the illegal bugging of a relative of one of the victims of the bombing of the Jewish community centre (Amia) in 1994 and extended to journalists, legislators in the City of Buenos Aires, and possibly even President Cristina Fernández and her husband and predecessor Néstor Kirchner.