In the last 10 years there have been 2,500 murders in Rosario, but nothing moved political power as much as an almost routine shooting in the city, against the front of a closed supermarket, with no deaths or injuries.
The bullets and a piece of paper.
The supermarket belongs to the family chain of Antonela Rocuzzo, Messi's wife.
The piece of paper was for the world champion.
He said
"Messi we are waiting for you"
.
And he added a personal accusation against the mayor of the city, Pablo Javkin, who has been denouncing the situation in Rosario with criticisms of the same tone both for the government of Santa Fe and for the national government.
Immediately after, there was another shooting with a boy murdered and heartbreaking images of neighbors going to break up drug bunkers with their own hands.
The words
Messi, Rosario
and
Drug Trafficking
- the President always avoids mentioning the latter and prefers the euphemism
"organized crime" -
go around the world and shake the Government for
a long period of turning a blind eye
.
As if reacting in spasms and in stages, Alberto Fernández first said that the people of Rosario are Argentines (that is why Messi was world champion with the National Team, he failed to add to his discovery);
then he said that "something will have to be done" and now he announces what he will do.
Let's see... let's guess... Right.
She will send gendarmes.
This time he said that it will be until he completes
1,400
.
It is
the same number of troops that are hired for the security of a Boca-River
.
It is necessary to see if the previous data was wrong or if the Government instead of adding security in Rosario is subtracting it, because at the time the Ministry of Security had said that it
had more than 2,000 gendarmes in Rosario.
It will support this with security cameras in the streets and tasks entrusted to the Army so that it enters to "urbanize" popular neighborhoods.
The President stops here, opening the umbrella of the inmate: he says that
"they are the Armed Forces of democracy"
, anticipating
criticism from La Cámpora and the Patria Institute.
Someone should remind him that this will be an easy front to neutralize: there are still videos on YouTube of Hebe de Bonafini
asking former Army chief César Milani to please enter the villas with the Army.
In the presidential message, however, there is a
compelling reality
.
The President admits that "organized crime," as he calls it, "co-opts the will of the security forces, in justice and also in politics."
There were no announcements for this, such as asset controls of officials or legal actions with the support of intelligence services, which Alberto did not even mention.
The question remains circling: if the Government knows this and suddenly assigns the seriousness it has,
why in three years has it not done anything?
The presidential announcement is another way out of trouble in the electoral year that
is not going to move the needle
of the real drama of Rosario and its victims.
Finally, the President announced that Minister Aníbal Fernández will go to the city tomorrow.
The enigma is
with what face the minister will present himself, after telling the people of Rosario that the drug traffickers had already won the battle.
look also
Drug violence in Rosario: Alberto Fernández announced a reinforcement of federal forces and the presence of the Army in the neighborhoods of the city
Pablo Javkin, about Alberto Fernández's announcements about drug violence: "Rosario needs immediate results"