The vice president Beatriz Argimon referred to the situation of unsafety that lives in Uruguay following the advance of drug trafficking, and advocated for regional coordination to fight against organized crime in all Latin America and the Caribbean.
Vice President Argimón maintained that “you cannot rest” in the fight against unsafety, one of the central issues not only of citizens in terms of concern and demand for actions; but of politics, especially in an election year. “The government has said on more than one occasion that, regardless of whether most crimes are going down, any crime worries us,” he explained.
“Whenever children are involved in a crime, it is something that challenges us as a society,” he added.
Asked about whether the drug trafficking It is the criminal practice that worries most in Executive Tower, Argimón indicated that yes, and recognized that it is also the greatest concern of the legislators who make up the Latin American and Caribbean Parliament (Parlatino), “unanimously.”
“It is very important that countries have common strategies, that we work well aligned, because it is evidently an issue that prevails Latin America”, assured, in relation to organized crime and crimes linked to drug trafficking.
A campaign promise from the ruling party
The former Secretary of the Presidency and pre-candidate of the National Party as a “natural” continuity of the current administration, Alvaro Delgado, promised to face the unsafety and the drug trafficking if he is elected president in this year’s elections; The announcement occurred within the framework of a campaign tour that the politician is providing throughout different points of Montevideo and the inside of Uruguay.
“It is true that in Uruguay we are in a society a little more violent”, Delgado admitted, and assured that the statistics are better, but that “in security we are not satisfied with the statistics.”
“The path of work, of reintegration to avoid the level of recidivism of those who leave the prisons, It is a path that we are going to follow, but we are going to go deeper. Please know that security will be at the top of the priorities of our security program. government, if we have to govern,” he added.
In that sense, he stressed that his government’s commitment will be to the public security. “If we have to exercise the government, as I am sure the people will trust us with the possibility of directing the destinies of the country, know that there is a team that will declare war on the unsafety and to drug trafficking”, assured the nationalist candidate.
Source: Ambito
