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Security & Strategic Review - January 2016 (ISSN 1741-4202)

Macri decides to move against drug trafficking

The escape and haphazard recapture of three criminals accused of drug trafficking from a maximum security prison in Argentina’s Buenos Aires province has acted as a catalyst for President Mauricio Macri to launch a new drive to try to tackle the spread of drug trafficking activity in Argentina. As with all the other undertakings that Macri has embarked on since coming to power in December 2015, the measures adopted by his government to improve national public security have been drastic – the declaration of a national security emergency; a shake-up of the federal security forces and the military command; and, most controversially, the adoption of a policy of shooting down any aircraft flying over Argentina’s national territory that is suspected of smuggling drugs. The big question is if all this will be enough to turn the tide.

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