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Brazil & Southern Cone - September 2013 (ISSN 1741-4431)

ARGENTINA: Talking tough on crime

Fear of crime, as well as recorded incidence of crime, is rising steadily in Argentina. The annual survey carried out by the Observatorio de la Deuda Social Argentina at the Universidad Católica (UCA), published in July, found 30.3% of respondents had been victims of a crime in 2012, up from 28.4% in 2010. Fear of crime was up 2.3% from 2010 to 2012, and was just as high among low-income interviewees as among the middle and upper classes. With such fear threatening to eat away at the ruling Frente para la Victoria (FPV) voter base, the party has promoted a number of wild policy proposals and tough-talking officials in an attempt to beef up its credentials on security. Though some of the initiatives have revealed genuine disagreement within the party over future policy, such confusion may matter less to frightened voters than tough talk.

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