Milei, who has regularly defended Israel’s genocide in Gaza, was also invited to join Trump’s Board of Peace.
Argentine President Javier Milei closed out 2025 by quietly issuing a decree that centralizes the country’s vast intelligence apparatus and give its intelligence agencies authority to apprehend individuals without prior judicial order.
Decree 941—issued on December 31, during legislative recess—reorganizes all intelligence agencies, including military intelligence, under the State Intelligence Secretariat (SIDE), which will report directly to the General Secretariat of the Presidency. The current General Secretariat of the Presidency is the president’s sister, Karina Milei.
CELS, a leading human rights organization in Argentina, published a statement labeling the decree as “unconstitutional” and warning that the order, known as a Necessity and Urgency Decree (DNU) grants SIDE, “powers characteristic of a secret police force, including detention authority, and establishes a legal framework for the surveillance of the entire population under conditions of extreme secrecy.”
When Milei first came to power in 2023, he was a far-right outlier in South America, with most surrounding countries having center-left governments. Last year saw a shift, with far-right governments coming to power in Bolivia and Chile, but most importantly Trump’s return to the White House. Figures like Milei are emboldened, carrying out U.S.-aligned agendas which pair greater state repression with economic reforms that impose austerity on working people and open resources to foreign extraction.
Milei, who has regularly defended Israel’s genocide in Gaza, was also invited to join Trump’s Board of Peace. The international body, created by Trump with U.N. approval, was established to task foreign government’s with administering Gaza’s future. Trump has signaled that he intends for the Board to play a role in global conflicts beyond Gaza. (more...)
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