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Pedro Herrera: We are running at risk of a return of organised criminality. Time to curb it
Presidential candidate from the MNR (Nationalist Revolutionary Movement), Pedro Herrera has acknowledged that there is a rising tide of criminality that can be observed on the streets of Corrientes, and calls it a continent-wide plight, not just one limited to the borders of the United States. This comes after leading intellectuals, headed by Maximiliano Rubio, rector of the Free University of Callao, together with a series of NGOs have issued an open letter, titled Os avisamos... (We warn you), which called out the policy of the past two governments, in ignoring the organised crime groups and the fight against corruption, which the group has seen as a cause for the recent failed coup d'etat.
The open letter calls out both MNR and UCR governments, condemning the past Herrera administration in 2014-2018 and 2018-2020, but also the UCR administrations of 2010-2014 and 2020-2023. While Correntine geographic positioning doesn't make it the best nation to produce drugs in Occidentia, with only one state, Curuzú, being tropical enough to have coca trees, that doesn't change the fact that in its history, many cartels have risen, using Correntine capital to construct the organisation and then use the likes of Monterrey, San Jose or Gran Occidentia as places of production and further, of trafficking towards Gallo-Germania or Westernesse. This is a very touchy subject as it is tied to the military dictatorships between 1972 and 1985, especially as the 1984 coup is known as the Narco Coupt thanks to the fact that it was organised and sponsored by cartels so that the new government can protect them.
With the nation entering its new age of democracy and stability, a lot has been done in the 90s and the 00s against cartels, many moving to Monterrey to escape the law, and nowadays more running from Monterrey, as President Pablo Prats has adopted a zero tolerance policy on them. In this environment, the growing numbers of arrests for drug trafficking, but at the same time, more and more news of traffickers aquited by the tribunals, which cited either a lack of evidence or the prescription of the deed has been seen as a slow creep towards the 70s and 80s, with new organised groups appearing as the state institutions seem more and more lacking and weaker by the day.
The coup from two months ago seems to have been funded by drug money, with soldiers being bought to set up a government. This was followed by the assassination in Palmira of goalkeeper Fabio Gomez, after the team was eliminated from the World Cup, after it lost in the 1st match, receiving a decisive goal in the 93rd minute, and then it had a draw against the Josefinos in the 2nd leg match. The assassination seems to be clear by now, that it was organised by sicarios at the order of leaders of crime groups, which have gambled extensive sums of money on the matches, but lost it all when the Torrientes were eliminated.
At the debate yesterday, the subject of the open letter has been put up and both candidates have responded in support for it, calling for a stronger arm against corruption, criminal groups and for empowering the state against such chaotic political actors.
"It is important to clean up the state and restory faith in the institutions for the people. It must be understood that Corrientes must not return to the state it was 40-50 years ago. Hence why, should the MNR be given another chance to govern and administer the United States, our goal will be to cooperate with the Regiomontañeros, to ensure that any groups that are trying to escape from there won't come here, which will be then followed by a strengthening of the security institutions, especially the Armed Police Corps, which which hunt down organised crime," stated Pedro Herrera.
Presidential candidate from the MNR (Nationalist Revolutionary Movement), Pedro Herrera has acknowledged that there is a rising tide of criminality that can be observed on the streets of Corrientes, and calls it a continent-wide plight, not just one limited to the borders of the United States. This comes after leading intellectuals, headed by Maximiliano Rubio, rector of the Free University of Callao, together with a series of NGOs have issued an open letter, titled Os avisamos... (We warn you), which called out the policy of the past two governments, in ignoring the organised crime groups and the fight against corruption, which the group has seen as a cause for the recent failed coup d'etat.
The open letter calls out both MNR and UCR governments, condemning the past Herrera administration in 2014-2018 and 2018-2020, but also the UCR administrations of 2010-2014 and 2020-2023. While Correntine geographic positioning doesn't make it the best nation to produce drugs in Occidentia, with only one state, Curuzú, being tropical enough to have coca trees, that doesn't change the fact that in its history, many cartels have risen, using Correntine capital to construct the organisation and then use the likes of Monterrey, San Jose or Gran Occidentia as places of production and further, of trafficking towards Gallo-Germania or Westernesse. This is a very touchy subject as it is tied to the military dictatorships between 1972 and 1985, especially as the 1984 coup is known as the Narco Coupt thanks to the fact that it was organised and sponsored by cartels so that the new government can protect them.
With the nation entering its new age of democracy and stability, a lot has been done in the 90s and the 00s against cartels, many moving to Monterrey to escape the law, and nowadays more running from Monterrey, as President Pablo Prats has adopted a zero tolerance policy on them. In this environment, the growing numbers of arrests for drug trafficking, but at the same time, more and more news of traffickers aquited by the tribunals, which cited either a lack of evidence or the prescription of the deed has been seen as a slow creep towards the 70s and 80s, with new organised groups appearing as the state institutions seem more and more lacking and weaker by the day.
The coup from two months ago seems to have been funded by drug money, with soldiers being bought to set up a government. This was followed by the assassination in Palmira of goalkeeper Fabio Gomez, after the team was eliminated from the World Cup, after it lost in the 1st match, receiving a decisive goal in the 93rd minute, and then it had a draw against the Josefinos in the 2nd leg match. The assassination seems to be clear by now, that it was organised by sicarios at the order of leaders of crime groups, which have gambled extensive sums of money on the matches, but lost it all when the Torrientes were eliminated.
At the debate yesterday, the subject of the open letter has been put up and both candidates have responded in support for it, calling for a stronger arm against corruption, criminal groups and for empowering the state against such chaotic political actors.
"It is important to clean up the state and restory faith in the institutions for the people. It must be understood that Corrientes must not return to the state it was 40-50 years ago. Hence why, should the MNR be given another chance to govern and administer the United States, our goal will be to cooperate with the Regiomontañeros, to ensure that any groups that are trying to escape from there won't come here, which will be then followed by a strengthening of the security institutions, especially the Armed Police Corps, which which hunt down organised crime," stated Pedro Herrera.
