Berni: ‘Argentina’s solution is Bukele’s path’

Amid the wave of crimes that Rosario is going through, Buenos Aires Security Minister Sergio Berni has asked to implement public policies in the territory and “make the decision” to put an end to the criminal gangs that operate from jail. Furthermore, he welcomed the measures implemented in The Savior for the president Nayib Bukele, which ordered the construction of a mega-jail for 40,000 inmates as part of its fight against gangs. “I have no doubt that Argentina’s solution is the path Bukele took“, said.

in dialogue with Chain 3 Rosary, the official belonging to the government of Axel Kicillof assured that the city of Santa Fe is crossed by two particular problems: the phenomenon of drug trafficking as an activity, on the one hand, and the breakdown of the social fabric of somewhere else. “They are two different approaches, with different dynamics and being attacked in different ways,” he explained.

“In Rosario, there was a withdrawal of the state that became gradual and ended in a takeover of the territories by crime. It is necessary to put back public policies, that they draw on a police station with bicycle and that they escape it is already a postcard. When that happens, there’s nothing left to describe,” he said.

Berni called it “unacceptable” and “inexplicable” that “drug traffickers can continue to leave prison as if they were free” and pointed against the Federal Penitentiary Service (FPS): “You should explain to society why you dismantled the Criminal Intelligence Service and why it allows something as stupid as drug traffickers to continue to communicate from prison”.

“I have constantly experienced this in each of my investigations. It’s inconceivable, no one comes out to give an explanation. Those of us who suffer the consequences of these irresponsibilities are the Argentines,” he added.

“The limits of democracy run when an ordinary citizen is a victim of state neglect. I understand that the fight against drug trafficking is not easy, but I don’t understand that there is a government that allows prisoners to communicate from prison, which is extremely lax with inmates, which allows prisoners to be released in the midst of a pandemic because they are afraid of suffering or being infected with the disease like any Argentine citizen. I don’t understand a justice that releases prisoners regardless of the consequences,” he said.

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For Berni, “Argentina’s solution is the path that Bukele took” in El Salvador, however, he felt that the crime problem “has nothing to do with the size of the prison but rather with a decision to end this. I can assure you that it is not difficult”. At this point, he felt that the situation will remain the same as long as “we have a justice that laughs at shit” and as long as “the prisoners continue to carry out their crimes by telephone”.

“Ideology prevails, I have no doubt, it is already impregnated in decision-making,” said the minister, after standing out from the government coalition to which he belongs and having mentioned the “two sides of Argentine politics”.

“I can say from experience that for all of these guarantors, when it happens to them, practically ask for the death penalty. The same as when we evict land in places where many politicians promote themselves or do not notice that the Constitution speaks of the private right of each of the citizens. However, when one of these guarantors takes private property, They are the first to call for evictions“, he added.

Likewise, when asked about the possibility that events similar to those recorded a few days ago in the neighborhood of Empalme Graneros – where a group of neighbors attacked the house of a suspected drug trafficker who would be linked to the death of Máximo Gerez -, Berni said: “To say that this is a typical Rosario photo is to lie. It happens from time to time.”

“I have 700 requests for drug retail job arrests, Justice is still doing the rounds to see when they decide to give us the searches and arrests. Today the average investigation of a selling drugs takes no less than 6 or 8 months, while this one is resolved very quickly, when you wait 8 months the neighborhood gets tired and what happened in Rosario happens.

“How long did it take to act? Was it so difficult? Yesterday 300 gendarmes came in and, wasn’t that a breath of fresh air? If this relaxes and national, provincial and municipal public policies do not go behind the Gendarmerie, it’s bread for today and hunger for tomorrow“, he concluded.

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