Two murders in Piedras Blancasa triple homicide in the Peñarol neighborhood, a femicide, an infanticide and a suicide —by the man who killed the woman and her son—in less than 24 hours. All of them were in Montevideo and all of them in the same operational area of the Police (zone 3).
President Luis Lacalle Pou he said he “worries” the cases of violence that are recorded, he even admitted not having been satisfied when the homicide figures fell in times of health emergency.
Along these lines, the president expressed his agreement with the Comprehensive Security Plan promoted by the Minister of the Interior, Luis Alberto Heber, but stated that the results are not yet as expected.
In the first half of this year there was a 39% increase in homicides compared to the same period of the previous year. And the Peñarol neighborhood became a territory of successive murders.
In this regard, Lacalle Pou admitted that the drug trafficking is behind many of the violent deaths, “in some places specifically there are violent groups and that is where the harshest attack has to be”, but knowing the reason does not exempt the problem: “When I was a senator I always complained when they talked about class A and class B deaths; violence is suffered by all”.
The consulting firm Cifra revealed in July that for a quarter of the population, insecurity is the main problem in the country, and, after the control of the covid-19 pandemic, the number of respondents who agree that this is the main problem has been growing. cause for national concern.
Lacalle said that his government is dealing with drug trafficking —Minister Heber had justified before Parliament that this was one of the reasons why there was an increase in homicides— and cited as examples: the extradition of Mexican drug trafficker Gerardo González Valencia , the closure of pasta base outlets and the seizure of goods and money from organized crime. Still, he concluded: “Of course I am not satisfied as long as there is violence in our country.”
