The nationalist legislator, a native of San José, Carlos Daniel Camy, spoke about how the national government works on security matters.
The senator from Maragato maintained that the ruling bloc defended the Minister of the Interior, Luis Alberto Heber, who attended the Chamber of Senators as a General Commission, days ago, at the initiative of the Broad Front, to respond to the rise in homicides in the first five months of the year and the situation in prisons.
During his appearance, Heber stated that “there is no widespread violence, as the convening member” pointed out, Enrique Rubio.
For her part, Camy said that “those who criticize the low crime data based on the pandemic are wrong. What is clear is that crime did not quarantine. Crime was not wearing a mask and with alcohol in gel. Does anyone think crime stopped?” she said.
He then added that “they want to whitewash what was a bad security management, of bad results with good things. Nobody says that it was a disaster and that everything good is now. This must be judged with results, especially when in Uruguay we continue to measure the data with the same method as the previous government, where the authorities that measure them were not changed and are therefore credible. We can talk about objectivity. The results of public security policies are better. Yes, we have to be better. In the secret session the plan was exposed and with details that parliament had never known before. They detailed the intelligence operations that are being carried out and the lines of action that the Ministry of the Interior has. We are at war with drug trafficking and wars always have collateral effects, as specialists on the subject call it. As the National Director of Drugs pointed out clearly and in detail about what happened in the Peñarol neighborhood, it is because there were at least two organizations there and another one that came from another territory joined. Violence is generated in the competition for territory. Better results are caused, not more homicides. I cannot take it for granted that there are more homicides,” he asserted.
Later, the nationalist senator expanded by saying that “there is an intelligence job that is being carried out. We trust that the results will arrive in the framework of a future where this issue will occupy us more and more often. It is a very difficult and complex issue and in order to defeat it we have to work on it with State policies, with a sense of national unity and all looking in the same direction. The approach must be inter-institutional, work is being done on this matter with Mides and with other organizations such as the MEC and education. In my opinion, the departmental governments should be incorporated, since they have things to do in terms of improving security policies. There are actors from the Broad Front who, faced with the notorious facts and the objective reality, insist with a story that contradicts that reality. I can’t force them to think differently. I do not attribute intentionality to them, I want to believe that it is legitimately a strategy. But to deny objective results of measuring crimes with the same method that the Broad Front created and with the same hierarchs in that office that the Broad Front appointed”, sentenced the nationalist legislator Carlos Daniel Camy.
