In Argentina, a sequence of murders with a clear mafia origin in the last 48 hours in the city of Rosario has led Javier Milei's government to also consider sending the army.
The victims of the wave of violence in the city that was the birthplace of Lionel Messi were two taxi drivers and a bus driver killed within a few hours and without any apparent motive.
The Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, stated that it is "a typical mafia revenge" carried out by the criminal groups that infest the city, now nicknamed the "Argentine Chicago".
According to Bullrich, the revenge of crime would be a response to the massive deployment of federal police officers known as Operation Flag, and also to the tightening of the prison regime for bosses decided by the local government.
Recently the governor of the province of Santa Fe, Maximiliano Pullaro, had published on social media a photo of a group of undressed and shaved prisoners, sitting on the ground one on top of the other, and surrounded by armed agents.
An image that recalls those deliberately circulated by the Salvadoran government during the presidency of Nayib Bukele, who boasts of having defeated the Salvadoran criminal gangs, known as 'maras', thanks to a very harsh policy of fighting crime.
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