Argentina: Javier Milei's new projects to fight drug trafficking and crime

He Government of Argentina said this Thursday that it is preparing to send to Parliament a set of bills to strengthen the fight against drug trafficking and organized crimewhose violent actions in the city of Rosario have forced a greater deployment of security forces in the last month.

“These projects are going to generate very important changes in the strategy against criminal organizations in Argentina,” said the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, at a press conference.

The minister made this announcement after meeting this Thursday in Buenos Aires with the governor of the province of Santa Fe (center), Maximiliano Pullaro, with whom he evaluated the special operation deployed in Rosario after the upsurge in violence associated with drug trafficking, which has included four murders.

Bullrich pointed out that the bills will allow, among other things, to apply to all members of a criminal organization the same maximum sentence that is granted to the leader of that organization.

They will also seek to incorporate the figure of “reiteration” so that each crime committed has a sentence.

Likewise, efforts will be made to create a genetic data bank to have reliable evidence to clarify judicial cases.

In addition, legal changes will be promoted that allow security forces to act in “legitimate defense” and in “fulfillment of duty” and that increase penalties for those who attack police authority.

The creation of a new juvenile criminal regime will also be promoted for minors who commit crimes.

Another of the bills that the Government plans to send to Parliament “in the coming days”, according to Bullrich, will modify the Internal Security Council law so that, in the event of terrorism, the military armed forces can act.

“All these projects are going to be presented in these days. For us all this is a priority. We ask the representatives of the people to vote for them. The people need them,” said the minister.