Huge Christmas scandal in Argentina as police engage in a standoff with a booze cruiser who works for the Russian embassy and thus enjoys diplomatic immunity. Geopolitics and neighborly disputes get mixed into the drama.

News crews were documenting the persecution of People of Alcohol like they do every holiday to humiliate those who test positive and get their car taken away. Even Santa can't enjoy a beer without being harassed:

Everything was going as usual until a driver REFUSES to test because he has a diplomatic passport and license plate, and is exempt from tyrannical sober-driving mandates. Police won't let him go for a while, and more TV stations show up , story goes viral quick

A disgruntled Russian immigrant shows up totally organically supposedly wants to help bridge the language barrier, but proceeds to shame the embassy worker. Charms the public with his broken Spanish and by wearing a small local soccer team's jersey

Another random Russian character shows up totally organically, a translator, who talks to the journos solely to insinuates the previous guy must've had ulterior motives and that his immigration status should be looked into because she "wouldn't be surprised" if he's a criminal or possibly not even a real Russian

Media gathers at the embassy nearby as the car is supposed to be escorted there by a police caravan. Neighbors hurl insults from balconies because they're fed up with the Russians parking wherever they feel like, being shitty and erecting an annoying barricade that disrupts pedestrian traffic on an already narrow sidewalk

Neighbor spergs out

Old lady who needs a cane to walk confronts the Russians about the sidewalk issue

The embassy's first secretary addresses the press to explain the cops are in the wrong as the Vienna convention stipulates that drunk driver rights are human rights or something

In the meantime at the same police checkpoint a second vehicle from the Russian embassy has been stopped for the same reason lol

A low-speed motorcade takes the Russians to the embassy

Argentinians are seething at diplomats being "above the law". This comes a week after Argentina's embassy in Kiyv suffered some minor damage from a Russian attack: