The intervention of the national government with the Federal Forces and the Plan Bandera drives the decline in murders
According to the investigation by the Public Prosecutor's Office, some of these attacks were ordered from prison by Alejandro Núñez, known as "Chucky Monedita", an alleged drug lord from the Tablada neighborhood, located in southern Rosario. All those accused of these acts are detained and face judicial charges.
Governor Maximiliano Pullaro inaugurated the ordinary session period of the Santa Fe Legislature this Thursday. During his speech, he highlighted the reduction of homicides throughout the province, especially in the city of Rosario, along with a decrease in the number of injuries from firearms and other crimes related to insecurity.
Official crime figures support these claims: in the first four months of the year, the Rosario department recorded 46 homicides, confirming a downward trend, driven by the successful intervention of Javier Milei's Government with the Federal Forces and the Plan Bandera.
Pullaro emphasized that last year ended "with the lowest murder rate since the year 2000" and noted that so far this year there is already an 11% decrease in registered homicides throughout the province, comparing the January-April 2024 period with the previous year. Official data reveals that 72 homicides have occurred so far this year, compared to 82 in the first four months of 2024.
Before presenting these indicators, the governor recalled the crimes linked to narco-terrorism that occurred in March of last year, in which taxi drivers Héctor Figueroa and Diego Celentano, bus driver Marcos Daloia, and gas station employee Bruno Bussanich were murdered.
The prosecutors in charge of the investigations of the four homicides, as well as the armed attacks against a police station, a bus, and a garbage collection truck, argued that these were retaliations for the new restrictive security measures.
In front of the legislators, Pullaro also reported that, in addition to the drop in murders, there was a 39% decrease in people injured by firearms, a 40% reduction in shootings, and a 30% decrease in crimes against security.
The National Security Minister, Patricia Bullrich, also addressed the issue last Wednesday, when she celebrated on her social media the World Bank's recognition of the advances of the Plan Bandera in Rosario and the new high-risk regime implemented in prisons. "Drug lords isolated. And a city that is no longer in the hands of crime, where today the law rules and people can live in peace," she posted on her X account.
