ROSARIO.- “I am from Rosario, don’t give in, please I ask you. I have two sons. “Do not do what the other governments did, please, I ask you.” The claim, almost a request, happened at dusk on the side of Route 9, in Arroyo Seco, about 30 kilometers from Rosario. The recipient of the request from a man in his 30s was the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich.
While the wind left by the rain blew and the noise of the trucks clattered on the asphalt of the highway, the national official showed the media, among which was LA NACION, the arrival of the first reinforcement of federal troops. There are about 200 members of the Federal Police, Gendarmerie and Prefecture, who are added to the nearly 1,500 stationed in Rosario. In the next few hours, they announced from the national portfolio, another 250 troops will arrive.
Bullrich had a hectic agenda today in Rosario. The morning started with a conference with the Minister of Defense, Luis Petri, the governor, Maximiliano Pullaro and the mayor Pablo Javkin. There he announced the reinforcement of his security plan after the increase in brutal violence that the city has experienced in recent days.
Later he met with the Gendarmerie troops stationed at post 2, maintained contacts with judges and prosecutors who are prosecuting drug trafficking cases and in the afternoon he participated in operations in the Via Honda area, one of the neighborhoods most punished by crime. drug trafficker in the city.
“People are very worried. We came to deploy more troops in critical areas and support our forces,” Bullrich told LA NACION shortly before returning to Rosario, where he will spend the night before returning to Buenos Aires this Tuesday.
The minister hopes that Parliament will give her approval so that the Army can act on the ground. Today, that is prohibited by the Internal Security Law. “The Armed Forces are tied,” he warned. And he asked: “We must open the door to them. We have to give them the opportunity to act.”
Bullrich’s arrival coincided with a kind of forced holiday in Rosario. Half-open shops, closed schools, stopped public transport, buses and taxis do not circulate at night. There will also be no early morning refueling. It is a virtual curfew, which no one ordered, but which people imposed on themselves because they are terrified. And is not for less. There were four executions at the hands of hitmen, who killed civilians in cold blood.
In this context, Bullrich showed himself this afternoon along with a small contingent of Prefecture and Gendarmerie troops on Route 9. The The former presidential candidate anticipated that the rest of the agents will be present in Santa Fe in the coming days. So far, only 200 of the 450 troops willing to travel to Rosario are on the ground. They will be added to the 1,500 already existing. “The Army will contribute in logistics. It will bring helicopters, cars and communication elements,” he later clarified.
Regarding the anti-drug operation carried out by the Ministry of Security in accordance with the national Executive and the government of Maximiliano Pullaro, he detailed: “We are working with criminal intelligence to follow the family tree of all the criminal gangs in Rosario and attack the lines that were released. We want to dissolve this problem. “We are going to reach everyone, disarm them and quickly recover the territory.”
He also announced that the Milei administration will send to Congress an anti-narco gang project: “The idea is that the crime of one is the crime of all. When a member of a gang attacks, all members of a gang will be judged with the same penalty. That way they won’t hide. Let’s hope that the deputies vote for it.”
He also urged deputies and senators to vote on the security emergency to “being able to count the elements we need” and ruled out the possibility of imposing a state of siege “unless requested by the province of Santa Fe”: “We believe that with the laws that we are going to send to Congress, the anti-drug initiative and the changes that we intend to make to the Penal Code will be enough. If Santa Fe wants a state of siege, it will be its responsibility.”.
“I was with the people. I saw them very distressed and sad, very afraid. They don’t dare to do anything. The situation is one of terror for the population. That is why we have to manage to conjure all this, so that people return to the normality of life. lor we are going to do it with saturation, with the forces that we are bringing”Bullrich closed.
Rosario, a shock
The war that the drug traffickers declared on the people of Rosario finally managed to modify the routine of thousands of neighbors this Monday. The teachers’ strike this time was not for salary or building improvements, it was for anticipate a situation that multiplied in WhatsApp groups over the weekend: Parents did not want to send their children to school. This time fear won. The Amsafé union, which brings together public school teachers, He noted that compliance was total.
Meanwhile, from the private establishments located in Sadop, they reported that almost 90 percent were closed. Hospitals only deal with emergencies and in the wards of the most exposed health centers, professionals continue with that latent fear of a hitman attack during the early hours of the morning.
The situation in businesses, both neighborhood and central, was almost identical. Blinds up but few people inside. With the deteriorating economic situation on its back, these days of virtual paralysis force many merchants to tighten their belts even more. “If we continue like this, we don’t know how we are going to pay salaries.”commented the owner of a bar located on Rodríguez and 9 de Julio, near Independencia Park.
Even the head of the Rosario Business Association, Ricardo Diab, evaluated today that some businesses could not open due to lack of staff, due to the transportation stoppage. And that in some areas, such as in the Tiro Suizo neighborhood, several owners They agreed to keep the blinds down as a precaution..
Given this panorama of a “city in a pandemic”, as many residents define it, There was no garbage collection yesterday or this morning either.. The union that brings together sweepers and collectors, which already They were the target of several shooting attacks (the last one last January), warned that in the event of a new event they could extend the measure, although the threat of strong storms may force them to go outside to avoid flooding.
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