Rosario: the teacher asked in a task to represent her neighborhood and a boy drew narcos

A teacher from Rosario came up with the idea of proposing to her students a playful activity without imagining the reaction it would generate in a seven-year-old boy. The slogan was clear and simple. He asked them to draw the neighborhood where they live taking into account some elements of the environment that could serve to locate that place. Thiago, a seven-year-old boy, drew a criminal dressed in a black cap pointing a gun at a person. The victim was depicted with his hands raised, as if he was not resisting the assault. However, the student left a chilling message in the drawing: the victim received a direct bullet in his face. When the child arrived home and showed his family what was done in class, his father was paralyzed and the first thing he did was send a photo of the drawing to his grandfather, who was in charge of viralizing it. Juan Manuel, his grandfather, said that the boy lives in Capitán Bermúdez, a city in the department of San Lorenzo that is located 15 km north of downtown Rosario and on the west bank of the Paraná River. While my grandson does not live in the risk zone, he is aware of what is happening in its vicinity,” he told TN. “It is something that is commented on daily and spoken in all families,” he said about the growing wave of crime and violence that drug traffickers exert on their neighbors. When my son sent me the drawing, I got a lump in my throat that a little boy is portraying that. This cannot be forgotten,” lamented Juan Manuel about the psychological traumas that could be left to Thiago in the future due to the lack of state policies to put an end to this whole situation. Although Thiago has not been a victim or indirect protagonist of a criminal act, his grandfather said that he is very dismayed by what is happening in Rosario: “He drew that because he knows what is happening.” Last week, all Argentines were shocked by the murder of a 12-year-old boy who was caught in the middle of a shootout. The incident occurred at the intersection of Cabal 1300 bis and Pasaje San José streets, in Empalme Granero, Rosario, when a group of criminals attacked with bullets a house in which at least four minors were located. Three of them were injured and Máximo Jerez lost his life. The injured were treated at the North Zone Children’s Hospital. Among them was a two-year-old girl, who was shot in the arm; and two 13-year-olds, who were shot in the mouth and chest, respectively. After what happened, neighbors and relatives of Máximo Jerez demolished and looted the house of an alleged narco, who is the one who keeps the entire neighborhood terrified. They took mattresses, badges, taps, furniture, a refrigerator and even a sofa belonging to the alleged Villazón narco clan, which leads the “Los salteños” gang. Those images were broadcast almost nationally by all TV channels, as well as a video broadcast by hitman Uriel Enrique, 19 years old (who already has an arrest warrant), where he demanded the return of all stolen belongings to their owners. “They return things or there is lead,” he threatened neighbors.

Original source in Spanish