translated from Spanish: MACRI: “The ‘ pepas ‘ that we seized could be for the school of your children”

Mauricio MACRI released a message this Sunday exposing the fight against drug trafficking. Through social networks, the president of the nation used a language that was uncontracted and colloquial in a publication directed to the Argentine families, which titled: “The ‘ pepas ‘ that we seized could be for your child’s school.” Together with “zero poverty”, the fight against drug trafficking was one of the main flags raised by the Government to change, both in the campaign and in the management that began in 2015.
Accompanied by a photo of a cardboard of LSD with images of animals, the president wrote: “We are accustomed to see successful police operations that end up seizing all kinds of drugs: LSD (seeds), ketamine, methamphetamine, cocaine, ecstasy… However, when we see them on TV or in the newspapers they seem to be crimes far away from us and our families and the daily lives of millions of Argentine families what does that truck have to do with 400 kilos of cocaine that they stop in Salta with a Coleg Secondary school in the center of the city of Cordoba, or a high school in the neighborhood of Belgrano, Buenos Aires, with your children’s college, or what happens in the secondary of Mar del Plata, Rosario, Mendoza, Neuquén? What does that narco group have to do that was caught in an expensive neighborhood with guns and tens of thousands of pills and the recital your kids are going to have a good fun with? In the past decade, without any policy that intended to combat it, drug trafficking grew exponentially in our country. As a result, drugs of all kinds in massive quantities were made available to new consumers at lower prices where do you think that market came from? who were the ones who didn’t buy drugs before, and now they do? The new drug market is made up of boys and girls like your children, your nephews, your teenage brothers and teenagers from all over the country, all social classes, all kinds of families. They are the main goal of anyone bringing drugs to the country. Because the drug market, like the video game, cannot grow towards the older people, they always grow towards the younger people, towards the young, towards the boys. So-so we start looking at things differently-it’s not about having discovered a narco gang, an isolated police episode, an intercepted plane, a truck with drugs here or there, or a smuggler trapped on entering Ezeiza with 100 CÁPSU in their intestines; Things that look like exits from a television series. It is a matter of capturing specifically a group of people and their lots of drugs that represent violent organizations that seek to fill the streets, schools, schools, universities, clubs and jobs, with these drugs. Able to distribute them anywhere with logistics similar to how you get a pizza to your house. The narco who is arrested with thousands of pills is just the one who brings the pills that are going to sell to your children at the party he likes most. When we stop the drug, the pills don’t come. It’s not a distant police fact, it’s absolutely close. Every seizure means less street drugs, more difficult drugs to get, more expensive drugs, more distant from schools, your children! In this note:

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