2024-05-07 05:36:49
Rosario, 300 km from Buenos Aires, is considered the most dangerous city in Argentina, with a homicide rate of 22 per 100,000 inhabitants, five times higher than the national rate.
A major river port for grain exports, Rosario is also a transit point for drugs from neighboring countries, which have flowed for years into a local drug trade made up of small gangs, with frequent shootings and extortions.
In the same town, a supermarket owned by relatives ofAntonela Roccuzzothe superstar’s wife Lionel Messi also a native of Rosario, was also the target of gunfire last year.
In the fall of 2023, the father of the Colombian Liverpool winger Luis Diaz was detained for 12 days by the ELN (National Liberation Army) guerrillas, in a mountainous region on the border with Venezuela, before being released under pressure from the government, in the midst of peace negotiations with the guerrillas.
Top scorer of the “coffee growers” Colombians, the ex-Monaco striker Radamel Falcaowho now plays in Spain, was considering returning to the Millonarios de Bogota, where he played as a junior, but the kidnapping of Manuel Diaz made him hesitate.
“We have to look at the situation in the country at the moment, it’s a bit complex […] These are negative things that make you think and perhaps slow you down“, has explained “The Tiger” on the Telepacifico channel.
In Peru, the mother of the international striker Paolo Guerrerowho played at Bayern Munich in the early 2000s, was the victim of extortion, one of the most common crimes in South America.
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