ROSARIO.- This week there was almost nothing else talked about. On Monday, the city woke up to the rhythm of a holiday, in which the pulse of bicycles prevailed over the lack of public transportation, children stayed at home due to closed schools and adults found it difficult to emerge from their stupor. It was a strange weekend. Off. As in a pandemic. AND a week that will be remembered as a turning point in this horror film that continues to add chapters. The cold-blooded murders of four workers changed the axis of the confrontation between gangs to urban terrorism.
On Tuesday the city remained paralyzed. The transport stoppage carried out by the bus drivers, who fired his colleague Marcos Daloia, who died on Sunday, resented the activity. The daily life of taxi drivers (two of them were murdered last week on two consecutive days) still dramatic. They only returned to driving at night on Thursday, because “they have no other choice.”
The Puma of the western zone, where the cold-blooded crime of beach player Bruno Bussanich occurred on Saturday nightcloses its doors at 10 at night, like the rest of the city’s service stations.
Throughout this week, the most violent since the drug war began more than a decade ago, A team from LA NACION toured and documented what the neighbors experienced. Many think that in this war anyone can be chosen by the hitmen.
Among the testimonies are that of Oscar Bravo, who wrote the song Rosario Sangra after the wave of crimes, and who murdered his bandmate, Ariel Ávila, because his lyrics were “annoying.” He also talks Daniela Toni, rector of Normal 3, a school where a couple of years ago a high school student died in a drug shooting. And the crude story of Cristian, the murdered beachgoer’s companion, who maintains that working has now become “Russian roulette.”
Cintia Lares, widow of taxi driver Diego Celentanovictim of one of the four crimes last week, says: “They ruined our lives in an inexplicable way.”
In the middle of the week, and with the landing of new federal forces and equipment from the Armed Forces, Rosario began to regain its usual rhythm. Patricia Bullrich’s Security Minister considered that drug traffickers “they have managed to spread terror”. Governor Maximiliano Pullaro requested, for his part, a modification of article 27 of the Internal Security Law to achieve open intervention by the Armed Forces in conflicts like this one. “They are clearly terrorist acts,” he explained.
The authorities’ announcement fell with skepticism on the average Rosario. In the last decade and with each escalation of violence, there were announcements of all kinds to combat drug traffickers. Although some plans downloaded from the Casa Rosada had greater results than others, the truth is that This society that has become accustomed to living with death disbelieves in advertisements and cries out for results.
