The only truth is insecurity

07/23/2020 - 23:25

• Clarín.com
• Opinion

Next week, Alberto Fernández is going to present his plan for the Judicial Reform to multiply the federal judges and dilute the power of Comodoro Py. But if something has become clear, it is that the most important are the judicial reforms that Cristina Kirchner is interested in. Remove the Attorney General of the Nation, the interim Eduardo Casal who was in charge of the prosecutors during the macrismo. Flip the transfer of 38 uncomfortable judges that was made at the same time. And expand the number of members of the Supreme Court. All with the same objective: to clear the judicial horizon of the Vice President , still dominated by the causes that investigate corruption during her two terms.

The question is what place judicial reform occupies in the priorities of a society burdened by the extension of the global pandemic, the economic collapse and the growing insecurity. Surveys consulted by the Government and the opposition confirm what most Argentines already know. Changes in Justice, although necessary for a long time, are not among the social emergencies.

The government of the Frente de Todos, made up of three strands of Peronism, seems not to have read Juan Domingo Perón. "The only truth is reality" , is one of the most repeated phrases by his followers. And the reality indicates that the lack of responses in economic and security matters constitute the two aspects that accumulate complaints and claims.

Insecurity was growing but this week it exploded with shocking cases. The one of the retired Jorge Ríos, who killed a thief at gunpoint after five criminals tried to assault him three times during the same night. Beaten and in a state of shock, he was imprisoned for two days and Justice's priority is to check whether the retiree overstepped his defense. Neither the judge, the prosecutor nor the Buenos Aires Police could still arrest all the thieves. ANDThe dead man had his massive and massive funeral in front of a soccer field.

The odyssey of the retirees did not stop at Quilmes. Another member of the elderly, this time 81 years old, killed a young man who went through a window to rob him with two other criminals in his house in Mar del Plata. The thief had been imprisoned seven times and had been released three months ago. The old man from Mar del Plata was saved by his aim and his shotgun. The 69-year-old plastic businessman, tortured, tied up and killed at his home by Engineer Maschwitz, did not have the same fate because the attackers apparently did not find what they were looking for.

The only truth, in these times, is insecurity. And it does not only refer to the Buenos Aires suburbs. A shoemaker in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Flores had to wait several weeks to open his premises by order of the rigid quarantine. He could not enjoy the good news. A day later, a thief attempted to assault him and shot him through the hand to die in the struggle for investigative causes.

All of these tragedies become more dramatic as the ministers and mayors yell at each other and provoke each other as the robberies and the dead pile up. Sergio Berni makes his show for television and Alberto Fernández takes time to find a solution because it is Cristina who protects him.

Meanwhile, failed security academics test hypotheses about the missing state without realizing the answer is there. In those same videos that show the loneliness of so many defenseless Argentines when criminals approach.