Rosario narco: the government makes a positive assessment of the sending of forces, but the tension with Santa Fe continues

“You have to wait. You don’t have to venture out. The offender is getting smarter and changing his face. We have to be vigilant. Any event that happens will kick us out of the picture. We have to keep working in the direction what we do.’ The definition made at GlobeLiveMedia represented Claudio Brilloni, Minister of Security for Santa Fe, the province where the drug trade has hit hard and sown terror.

A week after the start of a new security operation in Rosario and the landing of 400 gendarmes to take control of the territory, in the province and in the district capital, what reigns is caution. There is moderation about the outcome of the new action plan, but a certain calm because it is being implemented.

Over the past seven days, there has been a marked decrease in drug-related murders. In Rosario, there were no deaths as a result of blood feuds or criminal attacks. Two people admitted to Clemente Álvarez Hospital who had been attacked in recent months have died. But there was not a death a day, a tragic average that plagued Rosario’s reality.

Twenty minutes from the city center, there were deaths. There were three in Villa Gobernador Gálvez, which is part of the department of Rosario. All were related to account adjustments for drug sales. So far this year, 71 people have been murdered on Rosario soil. Last week, with conflict at the center of the national agenda, there was a concrete drop in homicides. This is good news for all governments involved in the operation.

Within the national government, there is a positive assessment of the deployment of resources that has been made and the comprehensiveness of the measures, in addition to the coordination and dialogue between Casa Rosada, the government of Omar Perotti in Santa Fe and that of Paul Javkin in Rosario. This triangle that now seems more oiled, did not work during the first three years of Alberto Fernández’s management.

This lack of functioning and the delay with which the problem is gaining prominence on the government’s agenda has strained and strained relations between the president and the governor of Santa Fe, who they do not speak since the drug dispute peaked in Rosario last week, and the national government has been forced to give it immediate priority.

The tacit peace pact concluded between the Nation and the province to resolve the conflict does not cover the discontent that continues to exist within the Perotti government due to the delay in resolving the problem and due to certain statements that have gone wrong , like that of spokesperson Gabriela Cerruti during the conference last week, when she assured:Prisoners do not have cell phones. Detainees have access to the possibility of speaking on the telephone because it is a right”.

“Those who say there are no cell phones or phone signals in prisons need to stop talking nonsense. They organized the purchase of a helicopter inside the prison”they expressed, in the government of Santa Fe, with a strong charge of irony, regarding the frustrated escape of drug trafficker Esteban Lindor Alvarado from Ezeiza prison.

In the provinces, we do not forget the number of times that Omar Perotti asked the president to take care of the question. This is why they are still sensitive to expressions that come from the heart of the Government, such as those expounded by the Spokesperson. “The prosecutors followed the dialogues through telephone tapping. There is concrete evidence of communications from Rawson, Marcos Paz and Ezeiza prisons,” they pointed out.

At Casa Rosada, they deny that imprisoned drug traffickers can speak normally from prison and claim that there is no signal allowing them to communicate. “We have a report from ENACOM that, for example, inside Marcos Paz there is no 4 or 3 G. There is only 2 G outside the prison. They can’t talk on cell phones there. Which doesn’t mean they have another way of communicating,” they said.

Just as Perotti heightened the tension in his relationship with Alberto Fernández, he also managed to restore the bond with the cabinet director, Agustin Rossiwith whom he confronted domestic politics in Santa Fe. The “Goat” highlights the gestures of rapprochement and goodwill that Perotti had upon taking office in the Cabinet, while the governor highlights the role that the official had faced the rampage of the drug conflict in Rosario.

Regarding the operation, in Balcarce 50 they emphasize that “the federal forces will be there as long as necessary” and that “there will surely be measures with the penitentiary question”, although they have not specified what they will be and when they will arrive. They know that the control of drug traffickers in maximum security prisons is one of the most sensitive points of this new operation to dismantle organized crime. From there come the central orders for distributing drugs, settling accounts, threatening and laundering money.

The Penitentiary Service is placed under the supervision of the Ministry of Justice, which directs Martin Sorie. This area is the most sensitive for Santa Fe and Rosario as they claim it is one of the root causes of the problem which has not been properly tackled. So much so that in the provinces, they have already taken measures to prevent the communication of prisoners.

“We acquired signal inhibitors that could be active in less than two months. They are imported. In this way, the only possible communication that prisoners will have will be through the cabins that are in the prisons, which are monitored, but have not been intervened, “said the Minister of Security of Santa Fe. The first place where it will be implemented will be the prison of Pineiro.

In the province they save that currently there is coordinated work with the Nation and Rosario, but they keep sending bills for the delay in dealing with the drug-related conflict. “The subject was only broached at some point, it was installed. At the national level, the situation and the need to bring forces to the provinces have been denied,” they point out. Differences in political relations have not disappeared.

On Tuesday March 28, the Minister of Security, Hannibal Fernandez, will travel to Rosario to announce the installation of a new federal police station and the installation of a ballistic analyzer, which has been imported, and a new system for opening cell phones. Everything, as defined in the security domain, is “latest generation” hardware.

The ballistic analyzer can detect an imprint of the weapon used which remains in the casing and in the lead of the ammunition. The result of this examination can allow security forces to compare these prints with those of other bullets collected during other criminal acts and to make a comparison. This way it could be determined whether the two were shot with the same firearm.

Next week technicians will arrive in Rosario to train the staff and before the end of the month it will be operational. It’s not the only one in Argentina, but it turns out to be an important technological reinforcement for the security operation installed in the country’s drug epicenter.

In addition, a system will begin to be used to more easily open cell phones so that their contents can be analyzed and the federal police block in Rosario will be reinforced. There will be more street and intelligence troops.

Regarding the civil engineers who are part of the Argentine army, yesterday they visited the most complex neighborhoods of Rosario with officials from the Ministry of Social Development. In the next few days, they will decide on the sectors to move the work forward. The Minister of Security disagrees that they are, but it is a decision made from Casa Rosada that must be followed.

It has been two Tuesdays since the joint command met in Rosario, which includes the federal forces, the provincial police and the government of Rosario. The painting is articulated by the chief of staff of the Ministry of Security and man of maximum confidence of Aníbal Fernández, Lucas Gancerainwho is in charge of coordinating the various actors.

At the same time, there is a table where the representatives of all the federal security forces who work with those of Santa Fe are seated. In the province, there are 3800 constables and they are estimated to be 1400 who are concentrated in Rosario. However, in the security portfolio, they are reluctant to report on the number of troops present in the city which is at the center of the drug conflict.

“The problem in Rosario is not only the city, but also the access roads, the surroundings, the national roads. Not everything is so linear, stand out near Aníbal Fernández. In this sense, they illustrated that the operation to prevent the escape of Alvarado, detained in Ezeiza but with his narco-power base in Rosario, was made up of troops distributed in Santa Fe, Entre Ríos and Buenos Aires. “It’s a global approach, not everything is concentrated in Rosario”, they underlined.

In the government of Pablo Javkin, as in the provinces, we are cautious about the progress of the security operation. They note that there is more hope in the hottest neighborhoods such as Las Flores, Ludueña, Empalme Granero, Industrial, Tablada Larrea, Villa Banana and modern Triangulo, but they cling to the “step to step” theory. not”. There is no battle won. “It’s all very nascent. We have to see how it evolves. Here everything is measured every 48 hours“, they assured. Peace is never stable in Rosario.

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