The government arrived in Rosario this Tuesday with the Minister of Defense Luis Petri, the heads of the Armed Forces, 120 soldiers, trucks, vans parked on the Costanera, helicopters flying over, boats and a Navy ship moored in the Paraná.
The
exhibitionist temptation
- an irremediable
Toc
of all governments - is still a political message: just a week after President Milei said in an interview that security in Rosario is
“a provincial issue”
, the Nation adds to the reaction of Bullrich and his gendarmes at the top of the military leadership and their logistical support.
Although it is a symbolic signal - due to the
Internal Security Law
, the military cannot act in internal conflicts - the government quickly understood that drug trafficking in Rosario
is not just a problem for the people of Rosario
.
That focus would immediately differentiate him from his predecessors.
In Defense they made it known that they are working on a reform of the law so that the Armed Forces can act against the internal drug enemy.
That project will go to Congress but, whether it is approved or not,
it will already be a message
.
As happens with the packages of economic laws with which the Government battles with the opposition in the legislative chambers, security will also add to the dilemma
“which side are you on”
that has emboldened President Milei in the
tweet rounds
every day.
In a survey on the 100 days of government - published in
Clarín
by Eduardo Paladini - drug trafficking worries only 2 percent of the population, but the figure
rises to 9
if the issue is
"insecurity
. "
Added together, they are only surpassed by
“inflation”
and
“poverty”
in public consideration.
The Government reads that if macroeconomic control works in the coming months - and inflation and poverty decrease - insecurity will return to the top of the agenda of concerns.
In this scenario - where motorcycle jets blend into the urban landscape - each new crime in Rosario will reveal (as has already happened) that vehicle display actions are
not enough.
That necessary change of focus also carries
a political risk:
if the drug drama in Rosario is now a national issue, a failure in the results against the scourge will have those responsible
in Buenos Aires.
Minister Bullrich, who in the 100-day survey appears with the most positive image of the national cabinet, knows that this photo can lose its freshness too soon if there are no
substantive actions.
That is why this Wednesday he met with the head of the powerful American CIA - visiting Buenos Aires - and on Tuesday he was not in Rosario with Petri but in the Casa Rosada, where his Justice colleague, Mariano Cúneo Libarona, summoned the heads of the Judiciary to launch the
Accusatory System
in Rosario, a procedural change that gives the prominence of the investigation to prosecutors and, in theory, causes cases
to double their speed,
as has already happened in Salta and Jujuy.
Time is short.
The technical changes that this implies - a system called COIRON
must be adapted
, which maintains electronic files instead of traditional paper "pages" - made Cúneo Libarona retreat from its decision to do so now.
It will be May 6 -in six weeks-,
if they arrive
.
If there is a plan to manage inflation, fiscal deficit or poverty,
this is the plan to reduce deaths in Rosario
.
At the meeting, the president of the Court, Horacio Rosatti, said he assumed a
“militant commitment”
to changing the system.
Rosatti, from Santa Fe, had said in 2021 that drug trafficking could be
“the most important problem in Argentina within three or four years
. ”
The deadline for that warning arrived.
However, half of the federal magistrate positions in the Province of Santa Fe
are still vacant
.
The federal landing in Rosario has a crucial side.
Perhaps he will achieve
greater independence
in the investigations that have cost provincial prosecutors to be displaced - or end up accused themselves - every time they sought connections between drug traffickers
and political power
.
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