Forced by the commotion generated by the mafia attack once morest Lionel Messi’s family environment, the national government took up the flag of the fight once morest the wave of crimes and drug trafficking that keep the city of Rosario in suspense.
He found in this crusade a reason to gain visibility in the face of the blurred electoral campaign of the Frente de Todos (FDT), which has not yet overcome its internal struggles and continues without proposing a clear path to resolve the great drama of inflation.
The plan that President Alberto Fernández announced to act once morest insecurity in Rosario was launched on Wednesday with the transfer of 400 federal forces (300 from the National Gendarmerie and 100 from the Federal Police) that will be added to the 1,000 already present in that area.
The Security Minister, Aníbal Fernández, led an act with the local governor, the Peronist Omar Perotti, and the mayor Pablo Javkin. The national official tried to overcome the counterpoints that he recently had with Perotti and Javkin and limited himself to showing commitment to joint challenges.
“It is imperative that we get into each place and that we get to the bone. It is an undesirable situation, ”Aníbal Fernández said in his speech, to later try to take pressure off the provincial president and the community chief by stating that they“ have inherited ”this situation. “We have come to work without piecework and without any kind of hindrance to get to the bottom of the matter,” stressed the minister.
Javkin, the leader of the Civic and Social Progressive Front who accumulates praise from the main referents of the opposition coalition Together for Change (JPC), was in charge of warning on Wednesday that “if we do not take this seriously as a challenge of country, beyond the situation in Rosario, we are not going to be able to face it well”.
“We are part of Argentina, the forces are federal. It is not a concession that is assigned to the city. We are part of Argentina and they are federal forces, they have to be on the border and they have to be in the important ports and in the land reception logistics nodes”, the mayor stated in radio statements.
The national chief of staff, Agustín Rossi, also from Santa Fe, assured that the federal forces will remain in Rosario “as long as necessary.” In addition, he sought to calm the spirits around another of the measures announced by the President and that has to do with the sending of Army troops to carry out complementary tasks related to the urbanization of popular neighborhoods.
“They are going to be unarmed,” Rossi clarified during an interview on Radio 2.
The tasks that are assigned to the members of the Directorate of Army Engineers will be resolved in the next few hours, following deliberations between Perotti and Javkin. However, the use of the Armed Forces. It has already received questions and once once more divided the waters in the political leadership, especially between the PRO presidential candidates Patricia Bullrich (in favor of using the Army) and Horacio Rodríguez Larreta (who opted to expand the presence of the Gendarmerie).
Among the criticisms, that of the Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS), an organization with more than 40 years of struggle in defense of human rights, stood out, where they warned that President Fernández’s decision represents a “serious fact, which shows the political failure to seriously solve urban violence and the limitation to a punitive approach to the problem”.
César Milani, head of the Army during the Government of Cristina Kirchner, questioned the measure but because of its limitations. “There are neither the technical means nor the high-performance machines to do these tasks, which involve opening streets, placing lighting,” he complained.
The theme of the Armed Forces it also made the president of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, Estela de Carlotto, uncomfortable. Earlier, the human rights leader was asked during a radio interview regarding the Army’s participation in the fight once morest drug trafficking and she replied: “Well, if the Armed Forces don’t do it, who will?”
However, Carlotto later clarified his position. “I made a terrible mistake, I am tired and old but the Army does not have to be there, the Armed Forces are for something else, those who in another era killed our children cannot be there and, although now, they are others, they have to be in other things, not in the street: for that there is another force that is the police”, he differentiated.
“The armed forces have to be in another place and not where there is so much risk and death. It is not that they are not accepted in that sense, but there must be lesser forces there, ”he completed.
