In 1994, the Argentine-Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA), a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, was bombed, killing 85 people and wounding hundreds in the country’s worst ever terrorist attack. No one has ever been convicted of the attack, but since the beginning, heavy suspicion has focused on Hezbollah and its patron, Iran. The AMIA attack followed a bombing at the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires two years earlier, which was claimed by the Hezbollah-allied Islamic Jihad Organization. Read more [...]

By all outward appearances, Argentina's embattled president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, hasn't had a very good week.  First, investigators probing a prosecutor’s death said Tuesday they found a draft document he wrote requesting her arrest in relation to a cover-up of a 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center.  The administration has denied wrongdoing, even as Fernández de Kirchner is on a state visit to China, during which the leaders of the countries signed 15 agreements Read more [...]