Armando Castaingdebat said that the law must be modified to “give greater autonomy to the Armed Forces.”
He Minister of National Defense, Armando Castaingdebat, He assured that the borders “they are a sieve” and considered that the drug trafficking “it is the great threat” to Uruguay because “it has no economic limits”, in the midst of the crisis in security which appears as one of the axes of the electoral campaign.
Castaingdebat was inclined to modify the border law “to give greater autonomy to the Armed forces”, while highlighting the measures that the government is promoting to combat the insecurity throughout the country.
“Today we have borders that They are a strainer, “extremely porous,” the leader warned at a press conference, and then pointed out that “drug trafficking is the greatest threat we face, because it has no economic limits.”
At the same time, he stressed that “the government has made decisions to strengthen the three forces, in line with protecting the border,” but he considered that it is necessary “to make a change in the border law to give greater autonomy to the Armed Forces.”
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The minister is against the security emergency
On the other hand, Castaingdebat pointed against the proposal of Open Town Hall to declare a public security emergency. “It has already been discussed, I am not in favour of it,” the minister insisted.
Regarding the government’s performance in this matter, he said: “We are aware that there has been improvement and that there are still things to do.” However, he did not condemn the initiative promoted by Guido Manini Rios and noted that “that is the good thing about belonging to a coalition and that everyone has the freedom to express their opinion as they believe is best for the country.”
It is worth noting that Manini Ríos proposes declaring the “State of National Emergency in Public Security” for 120 days to carry out other measures that include “reestablishing security in the metropolitan area, high-impact operations to dismantle drug trafficking networks and border protection against organized crime.”
Other axes are the activation of Emergency Funds for Public Safety and the immediate reinstatement of police officers to executive functions, as well as advanced training and capacity building to strengthen the forces.
Source: Ambito
