Categories: Social Responsibility

The “Los Pumitas” neighborhood, where oblivion lives

North of the city rosary beadsin Empalme Graneros, is the neighborhood “The Pumites”. A place where the absence of the State allowed poverty, violence and drug traffickers to coexist.

An area of ​​humble houses where the working lower class manages to get ahead every day. Like that tightrope walker who tries -in this case through “changas”- to stabilize on the thin line of poverty avoiding falling into destitution. Where “tomorrow” is the furthest future of him and the most arrogant projection of him.

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“The drug traffickers have won,” said Aníbal Fernández

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A neighborhood whose population are children and grandchildren of different indigenous communities, mostly QOM and Tobas. Where the rubble thrown on the sidewalk, the overgrown grasslands and the innumerable bars are already part of the daily scene. Where there is no drinking water and the asphalt, random between the different intersections, is the last memory of an absent State. forgotten. Where not even “clientelism” bothered to sow votes.

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Day of fury in Rosario for the crime of Máximo Jerez: a detainee after the murder of the 11-year-old boy

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This same place where prosecutor Adrián Spelta, belonging to the Painful Homicide Unit, expressed for Rosario’s LT8 radio station that “limits were pushed.” Where the Minister of National Security, Hannibal Fernandezstated: “The narcos have won”. A liberated zone so that drug violence exhibits its cruelest part. That obscene violence. Leaving a mutilated family, an empty school bench, a dead child.

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narcos without limits

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The crime of Máximo Jerez

maximum sherry He committed the terrible sin of going to the kiosk to buy “something” to accompany the tereré. She was just once years old. That child who dreamed of having his bicycle, of receiving a trophy for playing ball. With a mischievous smile, he was another victim of drug traffickers.

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Surrealism live from Rosario, Sinaloa was always close…

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The flag at half mast is not enough to describe the sadness. The Santa Fe Teachers Association denounced, through a statement, that “the situation is unsustainable. The violence carried out by the narco-police gangs has taken over the region”. Meanwhile, the narcos spread bullets and fear. Or worse, bullets and death while the security forces, local politicians, and national politicians accuse each other.

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Who is “El Salteño”, the leader of the drug gang targeted for the crime of Máximo Jerez

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