In a startling recorded message, President Alberto Fernández announced a series of measures that will seek to end the wave of violence that is stalking Rosario amid the war unleashed between drug gangs.

According to what he said, after talks with Governor Omar Perotti and Mayor Pablo Javkin, he decided to increase the presence of federal forces in the city of Santa Fe and to send army troops to working on the logistics and urbanization of popular neighborhoods, where they are generally in the majority. conflicts develop.

The president’s full message

From the first day I assumed the presidency of the Nation, we have worked with the governor of Santa Fe and the mayor of Rosario. We have resolved the historical debt issue with the province, we have moved forward with essential works such as the train or the waterway, we have built schools, roads. However, the fight against organized crime, despite the efforts made, has not achieved the expected results.

Organized crime does not develop overnight. It takes time to seize territories, recruit soldiers, capture wills in the security forces, in the judiciary, in the media and also in politics. This is what guarantees their development, their expansion and basically their impunity.

The events and images of the past few days show how far they are capable of going with their illicit designs.

I understand that Rosario needs us. I realize that your security forces are insufficient to deal with the solution of the problem.

I spoke in recent days with Governor Omar Perotti and with Mayor Pablo Javkin. They both gave me their perspective and expressed their needs to deal with a problem that, I repeat, has been developing for many years.

Faced with this image, I would like to announce that I have taken a series of decisions whose main objective is to dismantle these criminal organizations with the clear aim of strengthening social coexistence and democratic security:

First, I ordered the reinforcement of the Federal Forces until reaching, at this stage, the 1,400 men available for the city of Rosario. Minister Anibal Fernández will be in the city tomorrow to put this reinforcement into operation.

Secondly, I decided that the Argentine army, through its company of engineers, participates in the urbanization of popular neighborhoods, accelerating the tasks awaiting execution.

They are the armed forces of our democracy. In the exemplary way in which they acted during the pandemic and the fires, they will now do so with the same honesty, competence and conviction to come to the aid of a population in need. These are subsidiary tasks provided for in the National Defense Act.

Tomorrow, the governor of the province of Santa Fe, Omar Perotti, will sign the agreement with the CRF to install a delegation in Rosario. In this way, we seek to have greater efficiency in the fight against money laundering, derived among other causes, from drug trafficking.

In addition, we have already signed the Renaper Collaboration and Technical Cooperation Agreement with the Province of Santa Fe, which will allow rapid and rapid validation of identities through the secure identification system in security operations.

We will also quickly add 600 state-of-the-art facial recognition surveillance cameras for the city of Rosario.

The prison system will take extreme care against inmates who have been sentenced and intend the same prison to continue to control their criminal purposes.

We are going to put the authority of the State back in the center of the stage to give back to the city its community life.

We make strong decisions. Our pulse does not tremble in the fight against organized crime. Anyone involved in these organizations, whether actively or passively, will fall under the weight of the law. We do not accept pettiness or political speculation.

Rosario, cradle of culture, science and the arts, does not deserve to live in anxiety. The manipulation of information for institutional attrition and the political game played by those who want to take advantage of this situation deserve only democratic rejection.

We are going to ensure that Rosario finds order and therefore its social life in freedom and security, but above all we are going to do justice, we owe it to the victims of the mafias and we owe it to the children of the city.

We will not allow a single act of impunity. Those involved in organized crime need to know that there is a state with the strength and intelligence to arrest, try and imprison everyone who does harm.

We face a real and complex problem that involves crimes of different scales and types, which is why we face this fight with the determination and conviction it requires. We work in a coordinated manner for federal, preventive and comprehensive security for all.

We know that Rosario occupies a neuralgic place in our geography, that it is a center of roads that connect the country and that it has one of the largest ports in Argentina. None of these, genuine virtues from the heart of our country, can be used to favor organized crime for their crimes.

Rosario is so much more than the issues she is going through today and we know she will move forward. We are going to put an end to the criminal violence of the death-dealing hitmen.

No criminal organization or mafia network can overcome the strength of a united people in defense of their land and their community life.

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