Patricia Bullrich says crackdown on drug gangs is prospering

Cocaine exports to Europe have actually been blocked, she states

Murders in Rosario hub most affordable in at least a years

By Lucinda Elliott

BUENOS AIRES, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Patricia Bullrich, Argentina's security minister, is on a mission to stamp out drug gangs in the South American country that have actually driven increasing violence and led to a spike in to Europe. She says she is succeeding.

Argentina has actually grown in significance as a transit center for cocaine as production from Peru and Bolivia has actually streamed down crucial waterways and wiki.eqoarevival.com out through river ports such as that of Rosario, Lionel Messi's home town. Gang-related murders increased in tandem.

Bullrich, in an unusual interview with global media, told Reuters the year-old government of libertarian President Javier Milei was separating the gangs and obstructing deliveries from making their way to end markets, consisting of to Europe, where the cocaine market has actually expanded in the last few years.

"We've had record cocaine seizures which's created great respect for us regionally and also in Europe, because (in 2024) no delivery from Argentina was identified in Europe," she said at her workplace in Buenos Aires, adding that "of course there may be some deliveries that were unnoticed."

The security ministry confirmed that cocaine was not discovered in any shipments that crossed the South Atlantic from Argentina to a significant European port in 2024. Reuters was not able to individually verify that.

Once a rival to Milei as the presidential prospect for the main conservative bloc, Bullrich is now leading the crackdown on crime, tightening borders with Brazil and hb9lc.org Bolivia, forum.pinoo.com.tr privatizing some jails and utilizing expert system to track gangs.

In Rosario, according to city government figures, murders dropped to 90 last year - the least expensive in at least the last decade and down from nearly 300 in 2022 and 261 in 2023, the year before Milei and Bullrich took office.

"We decided to hit hard against the gangs," Bullrich said, adding that cooperation between the national and local federal governments in Rosario had actually been an essential aspect, [users.atw.hu](http://users.atw.hu/samp-info-forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=08da429cfa0050479d90ee821ab821b9&action=profile