The former President of the Republic, Julio María Sanguinetti, made his usual presentation in the so-called “Friday Mail”, a publication in favor of the Colorado Party. The former president stated that from the Broad Front, “a plan for the fight against drug trafficking was requested and he was informed in Tuesday’s session.” Regarding the appearance of the minister heber.
He noted that in “public and even secret form, of the lines of police action, even in their greatest details. Likewise, he walked out of the session repeating that there was no ‘plan’. Anyone would believe that, good or bad, they had a great plan and it turns out that Prosecutor Jorge Díaz, in 2019, categorically stated that there had been no plan for a decade.
Then he emphasizes that “theft and robbery continued to drop. Unfortunately, homicides increased: 92, when in 2019 there had been 72. But if we go back, the first quarter of 2020, the last of the front government before handing over, the same figure was recorded. The month of May, invoked with a dramatic hollow voice, was 37, a bad result without a doubt, but the same as May 2019. Where is the escalation then?
They let it grow, Sanguinetti said.
He noted that in our country “we are fighting against a scourge that was allowed to grow for not confronting it rigorously when it was an incipient phenomenon. That is the big issue: they handed the country over to drug traffickers and with Uruguay marked on the world map of organized crime.”
In the 15 years of the Government of the Broad Front, he outlined that they “badly approached the issue, because their theory was that they did not have to chase the small mouths but the big distributors and in the end it turned out that they could not with one or the other. They were victims of their own dogmatic theories, which made the delinquent a victim of capitalist society, responsible for all ills, and the neighborhood drug dealer a poor boy in disgrace.
A “theatrical stage”
On closing his expressions, the leader of the Colorado Party outlined that the failures of the previous regime set up a theatrical stage to try to exorcise their disaster, appealing to surreal images. Those from the world of Dalí’s dreams, in which objects are installed in a transfigured reality. Those responsible for the debacle, themselves, spoke as if they were experts and, at the height of comedy, offered technical collaboration. Even Jorge Vázquez, the former Tupamaro brother of the deceased president, came out of his silence to teach on television, as if he were part of a success and not one of the captains of the debacle”
