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Argentina’s Supreme Court has confirmed that former president and current Peronist leader Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will stand trial for allegedly covering up those responsible for the 1994 AMIA bombing.
This attack on the Jewish community center, which killed 85 people and injured over 300, remains one of Hispanic America’s deadliest terrorist acts and a lingering wound for Argentine society.
The controversy centers on a 2013 Memorandum of Understanding with Iran signed during Kirchner’s second term.
Prosecutor Alberto Nisman alleged that this agreement was a ploy to shield five Iranian suspects linked to the attack in exchange for political and economic benefits. Nisman filed his accusation just days before his suspicious death in 2015, which remains a flashpoint in Argentine politics. His death, whether a suicide or a politically motivated assassination, continues to generate heated debate.
Nisman was murdered, a federal judge found. from a gunshot wound in his Buenos Aires flat in January 2015.
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