The Colorado Party candidate exchanged ideas, strategies and learnings in the fight against drug trafficking with the Argentine Minister of Security.
The candidate for Colorado Party, Gabriel Gurméndez, met with the minister of Security of Argentina, Patricia Bullrich, in the office of the government official Javier Milei, in the neighboring country. The fight against drug trafficking and organized crime was one of the central topics at the meeting, in line with what the former president of Antel pointed out as one of his focuses in the campaign for the presidency of Uruguay.
Accompanied by the criminal lawyer and former deputy Jorge Barrera, which is in charge of coordinating the technical groups in matters of Security and Social Coexistence who supports him, Gurméndez met with the Argentine Minister of Security, who holds that position for the second time in her political career – the first was during the government of Mauricio Macri.
“We had a very rich dialogue that allowed us, first-hand, to update the situation of the fight drug trafficking at regional level; especially thinking about deepening coordination actions between both countries to combat the organized crime. The future Uruguayan administration must immediately address these issues with the current Argentine authorities, for which we are already working,” said the Colorado candidate at the end of the meeting, which lasted more than an hour and took place on the seventh floor of the Ministery of security Argentinian.
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In that sense, Gurméndez highlighted that “for the Uruguay “It is very important to strengthen strategic alliances in the region to be able to effectively combat criminal organizations dedicated to drug trafficking, which are the cause of the violence that is the main concern of Uruguayans.”
In addition to the fight against organized crime and drug trafficking—with the “successful policy” applied by the portfolio led by Bullrich in the city of Rosary beads, as the main example—, the legislative changes that the Argentine government plans to promote in the coming months were also on the conversation table.
Security, one of the priority issues in Gurméndez’s campaign
Gurméndez’s meeting with Bullrich It is not a coincidence, but rather it is part of the trajectory of the electoral campaign that the pre-candidate explained in the launch of his pre-candidacy last Tuesday; and in the leader’s intention to capture the Uruguayan liberal vote.
At the event, which took place at Montevideo Music box —and in which Barrera was also present, along with other Colorado leaders who joined the new political space of the former president of Antel, Impact-, The candidate placed special emphasis on the country’s security, and noted that his eventual government will have the fight against insecurity as one of its priorities.
Gurméndez took the example of the child murdered last week and which shocked the entire Uruguay. “We feel that sense of rebellion and pain in the face of what society challenges us. Because that two-year-old child in Pinar Norte… that bullet that killed him hurt us all,” he remarked.
“We know that there are answers to give to early childhood and we know that we have to find a way to take better care of our grandparents. We know that there are homes with mud floors and we know that we cannot bear more than young Uruguayans are poisoned by the drug,” he added.
Source: Ambito
