The mayor of Montevideo and presidential candidate for the Broad Front (FA), Carolina Cosse He presented his Country Plan of “immediate actions” that he will propose in his eventual government and assured that “the issue that most concerns” Uruguayans is security.
This Tuesday at the El Galpón theater (Montevideo), the capital’s leader explained that from this first installment of the Country Plan they do not seek to propose “an exhaustive set of options” around the issue, but rather “a new look” on this social problem .
In that same line, cosse He pointed out that “we are experiencing truly alarming levels of violence” based on some “objective indicators.” “There are approximately 8,100 cases of mistreatment, abuse and violence of children and adolescents reported in 2023, in 2022 there were 4,900.”
“In 2023 there were more than 42,000 reports of gender-based violence and 382 homicides, and we have reached a record number of people deprived of liberty of more than 15,000,” lamented the engineer.
According to cossethis last figure places Uruguay within a Top 10 of countries with the most people deprived of liberty per capita. “Violence is present in our society in new ways, because we have all seen how bloody this violence is.”
“We have also begun to see boys and girls as victims, even of extreme violence, it is a phenomenon that must be considered in quantitative and qualitative terms,” he continued.
He then stated that “a systemic view” in terms of security should aim to reduce violence in Uruguayan society.
“Inequality increased”
On the other hand, cosse pointed out that the inequality increased in the country, and that there are more than 500,000 people who earn less than 25,000 pesos. “100,000 more people than there were in 2020,” she commented.
“The child poverty It worries us all, it is around 20% or 21%,” remarked the Broad Front presidential candidate based on data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE). In that sense, he revealed that the 20% of the poorest households have 44% of children under 6 years of age, and that of every 1,000 households, about 146 have “moderate or serious insecurity issues.”
“There is degradation of coexistence in society”
In addition, cosse interprets that a phenomenon of “degradation of coexistence in Uruguayan society” is occurring, and that this, added to growing inequality, are factors that influence public security.
“This degradation is expressed in different ways, when we withdraw from spaces because we think that it is natural not to be in those spaces,” he stated in reference to some urban areas that are seen as unsafe and added: “The spaces that we give up are taken over by the violence, then we enter a pernicious circle for the entire society.
Source: Ambito
