The Minister of the Interior, Luis Alberto Heber, will face to face this Tuesday with the senators of the Broad Front who summoned him in the face of the increase in homicides registered in recent weeks in the country, with the Peñarol neighborhood being one of the hot spots with several events in which firearms were involved, but also other unheard of events such as dismemberment and burning of corpses.
The Frente Amplio senator, Enrique Rubio, will begin the interpellation for an hour to raise questions about the management of Heber, who became Minister of the Interior after the death of Jorge Larrañaga and having left the portfolio of Public Works and Transport in charge of Jose Luis Falero.
Rubio explained in a talk with the program Informative Menuof M24that there was a global phenomenon that was the drop in crime due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but that in 2021 there was a peak in crime in Uruguay against the grain of other countries.
The legislator pointed out that from January 1 to date there has been an “extraordinary growth in the cruelest crimes, which are homicides; It’s not just May.” “It is a problem of the 150 days so far this year, where there were 170 homicides (…) which is not only in Montevideo”, he added.
The FA chose the approach from the General Commission so as not to repeat “histories of the past where they lived questioning the Minister of the Interior” while not going to consider “that the problem of insecurity is exclusively a problem of the Ministry of the Interior.”
In this last particular, Rubio understands that public security intersects with social policies that must reach the poorest, and with proper attention from the prison system.
In the interpellation, the Broad Front hopes to obtain from Heber all possible data on the plan to reduce crimes that supposedly came out of the meeting he had in La Anchorena for two days with Luis Lacalle Pou and Álvaro Delgado.
