A specialist assured that CFK does not have the political will to investigate drug traffickers and warned that the Sinaloa cartel is already operating in several provinces

Edgardo Buscaglia has been an advisor to the government since 1991 on public policy in the fight against organized crime. Interviewed by Eduardo Feinmann on the show someone has to say (via Radio Mitre) assured that the reactions of the national government to the drug-related violence in Rosario are “spasmodic pre-election measures which are useless and they further corrupt the federal police”. And I add:They send little soldiers or policemen as a show and it will end up looking like Mexico, a mafiocracy. We must break with the political protection of any political party”.

This senior researcher in law and economics at Columbia University is set in 2011 when worked in Santa Fe with the head of the French anti-money laundering unit. “He worked with us because a lot of the drugs that left this province ended up in this country. For that, international collaboration is needed on the sitesomething that doesn’t happen today,” said Buscaglia, who has advised nongovernmental organizations in 119 countries to fight crime.

“When you hear a security minister – compared to Aníbal Fernández – say ‘the drug traffickers have won’, what happens to you?” Feinmann asked. “The Argentine state is on its knees in the face of transnational organized crime. He is at the mercy of criminal groups from Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and, mainly, Russia who operate in Argentina, where high-level judges like Sebastián Casanello and also prosecutors like (Diego) Luciani and (Marcelo) Colombo they can’t do anything if it’s politically boycottedThey do not receive a budget and are not allowed to collaborate with other institutions”.

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The expert explained that “the political market is deeply penetrated by crime”. And he recounted a personal experience he had in 2011, when he governed Cristina Kirchner“We pointed out 12 years ago that the federal government had boycotted investigating crime in Santa Fe politics. At that time, a customs representative in Santa Fe secretly came to the meeting because the feds wouldn’t allow him to be there. We are talking about a direct and premeditated boycott against the formation of the anti-mafia pool that we wanted to train in Rosario”.

“I fear that, by mistake or omission, Cristina Kirchner was somehow complicit in drug trafficking in the Argentine Republicasked Feinmann. “Your government boycotted the presence of members of the intelligence services, a prosecutor and a federal judge, customs had to be there when we wanted to form this anti-Mafia group. It’s like a football team, formed between 9 and 15 establishments that they must be seated, as happens in 67 democracies around the world and each brings a piece of evidence that serves to dismantle, ”he argued.

Buscaglia confirmed that he also advised the Mexican government, together with the financial intelligence unitto infiltrate the underworld of the drug lord chapo guzman as well as the former Secretary of Public Security -former President Felipe Calderón-, Genaro Garcia Luna.

The author of the books Money laundering and political corruption there Electric vacuum cleaners in Mexico. How to fight organized crime He said the solution is “get the money that goes into politics and protect them contractors and trusts in the construction sectorin the concessions of private ports, in the fishing sector because – in the words of this adviser – “Much of this cocaine leaves Santa Fe disguised as fishmeal.“.

Also an academic, visitor to the Università degli Studi di Torino (Italy) who did a postdoctoral fellowship in jurisprudence and social policy at the University of California at Berkeley, added that the Rosario phenomenon extends to the province of Buenos Aires. “He reaches Campana, Zárate and Pilar until he reaches the mexicanization of the mafiocracy: provinces that cannot be controlled by the provincial or federal government. The situation in Rosario today is copied in the prisons of other Argentine provincessaid who was also president of the Institute for Citizen Action in Mexico and member of the board of directors of Transparency International (Berlin, 1995-1999).

“So this is going to be extended to other rosaries in other provinces?” Feinmann consulted. “There is no doubt, the international experience of the 119 countries where we work with my teams bears witness to this. This extends to all Argentine provinces if the 45 anti-mafia actions are not applied which are provided for in the international law of the United Nations, which the Argentine Senate has ratified. It’s the law, it’s not an agreement or an expression of will. But Argentina violates in 97% of these anti-mafia actions”.

And he complains: “A provincial prosecutor in Santa Fe who wants to know what properties are linked to a defendant in other provinces cannot know because ownership records are not connectedIn other words, the cooperation of the federal government is necessary, otherwise Santa Fe cannot do anything. And he’s not sending in soldiers as a pre-election show.

Another of the statements during his interview was to state that in response to a question from Feinmann, he said that the Sinaloa Cartel operates in Chaco, Formosa and Buenos Aires. “If with money laundering, human trafficking, drug and migrant smuggling as well as the smuggling of adulterated drugs, criminal enterprises that in Argentina are out of control,” he said.

The possible presence of PCC (First Capital Command), one of the most important criminal organizations in Brazil, in some penitentiary units of the country, was another topic of conversation. “The CCP operates as it has for 30 years, capture prisons with political protection and prison officials and, from there, they develop the trafficking of human beings, drugs, the smuggling of adulterated medicines to Europe, operating through a pirate pharmaceutical industry, from Argentine prisonswhich are a palace of organized crime,” he argued.

In conclusion, Buscaglia affirmed that in order to reach a definitive solution, a in-depth reform of the federal penitentiary system “by a purge of his authorities and his political protectorate”. And, from there, “to enter a new prison model like those that operate in countries like Germany, Japan and Colombia”, he concluded.

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