Argentine Military Scrambles After Bomb Threat Against Presidential Palace

Argentine President Mauricio Macri at the Casa Rosada presidential palace in Buenos Aires on January 17, 2017. After years of socialist mismanagemet, his government is struggling with a legacy of money printing as the currency dropped 30 percent against the dollar in 2018. EITAN ABRAMOVICH/AFP/Getty Images

BUENOS AIRES—Argentina’s military and federal police scrambled to secure the presidential palace in Buenos Aires on May 13 after a bomb threat made while President Mauricio Macri was in the building, just hours after a man was arrested trying to enter with a gun.

The threat against Casa Rosada was made via a phone call in which a person indicated a plan to put a bomb inside a car, the office of Argentina’s Secretary General told Reuters.