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Argentina’s Federal Police dismantled a terrorist cell planning attacks on the Jewish community in the city of Mendoza, the National Security Ministry said in a statement on Friday, describing the group as an “Islamist terrorist organization”.
Argentina has Latin America’s largest Jewish population. A 1994 attack on a Jewish community center killed 85 people in what remains the deadliest such incident in the South American nation’s history. An attack against the Israeli embassy in 1992 killed 22 people.
Libertarian President Javier Milei, a staunch proponent of both the Jewish community and Israel, promised last month to beef up the national intelligence system to prevent future attacks.