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

Argentina: Macri’s national security strategy comes in for criticism

The various measures adopted by the Argentine government led by President Mauricio Macri to improve public security and fight the spread of drug trafficking around the country [SSR-16-09] have come in for pointed criticism by a leading local human-rights advocacy group. The Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (Cels) NGO has released a new report arguing that the Macri government’s plans to rely on the armed forces to help carry out internal policing duties and combat drug trafficking and other organised criminal activity goes against existing legislation and the national constitution. Warning that similar moves to militarise public security in Latin America have led to a sharp increase in human-rights abuses by the security forces, Cels has called for this trend to be stopped.

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