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Alberto Nisman

Argentine journalist Jacobo Timerman, shown at home June 21,199.

His father was a human rights icon. He’s in the middle of a scandal with a dead prosecutor.

February 5, 2015Justice

The name of Argentina’s foreign minister, Hector Timerman, was on a draft copy of an arrest note by a slain prosecutor. The prosecutor had been investigating the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center.

Argentina's President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, sitting in a wheelchair, addresses the nation during a televised speech in Buenos Aires announcing an attempt to disband SIDE, the country's intelligence agency.

Argentina’s president declares war on ‘the power behind the power’ — her country’s spies

January 27, 2015Global Politics
Prosecutor Viviana Fein, who is investigating the death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman, speaks to journalists outside her office in Buenos Aires.

The plot thickens in the case of Argentina’s slain prosecutor

January 21, 2015Global Politics

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