The decision was voted on yesterday, although the intentions of the Broad Front were to question the minister before Tourism Week.
The Minister of the Interior, Luis Alberto Heberwill be questioned in Deputies on June 28thaccording to the vote in Parliament yesterday, by the homicide levels during the years 2022 and 2023. The call to the room was made by the Frente Amplista deputy Sebastian Valdomirwho informed that the interpellation was planned for the month of April.
The decision to call the minister to the room was made public after the case of the murder of the manager of the Ta-Ta supermarket in Parque Rodó was made public. However, the questioning deputy commented to the Underlined outlet that the intentions were to call Heber to court in April with the aim of explaining the official actions in terms of security, but that it had to be postponed due to the debate on the social security reform.
The debate over insecurity
After the murder in the Ta-Ta supermarket, the minister came out to give statements and establish that homicides dropped “almost 50%” in May compared to the number of these crimes that occurred during the same month of 2022. On the other hand, he claimed that crimes were falling significantly and that an upward or downward trend cannot be made because they need to be measured from January until July to have a pattern of whether homicides in Uruguay are falling.
Faced with this, the mayor of Montevideo, Carolina Cosse, pointed out that “It’s been four years since they’ve gotten one” in the face of a sensitive problem and that keeps Uruguay in a state of concern. Cosse He stated at a press conference that the security problem “is so serious that it is always time to start.” Referring to the statistics, he detailed: “Do we have a homicide every other day? It’s nonsense. You have to stop talking and doing, with real actions ”.
For his part, the president of the Broad Front, Fernando Pereira, also joined the criticism and remarked that homicides are becoming more violentwhere dismembered and burned bodies appear and added that, paradoxically, “Minister Heber brought a plan to Lacalle more than a year ago and As a result, homicides increase.”. In addition, he specified that he believes that “The time has come for the minister to step aside”.
Source: Ambito
