AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Drug and human trafficking: "There are people who have money stained with blood in their pocket"

Thursday, 11 December 2014

Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "Drug and human trafficking are criminal activities carried out by organized criminal gangs, who earn territories with corruption in various structures of society and the State. Some people have money stained with blood in their pocket", denounced the Bishop of Gualeguaychú and President of the Episcopal Commission for social Ministry, His Exc. Mgr. Jorge Lozano to Argentine Dyn Agency.
The interviewee emphasizes the Church's concern for the serious reality that the country lives: compared to 2013 the situation has degenerated even more this year: Mgr. Lozano explained that society is not only crossed by drug use, but one begins to see the collapse of state structures due to the advancement of the economic power of narcos.
The Church has already denounced the new situations related to drug trafficking: Posadas (see Fides 05/11/2014), Santiago del Estero (see Fides 21/08/2014), Quilmes (see Fides 09/10/2014), Chubut (see Fides 26/06/2014), Buenos Aires (see Fides 30/10/2014). In Argentina the phenomenon of consumption and retail sales of drugs has exploded as a serious social problem, and the Church is committed to combatting this scourge (see Fides 05/05/2014) in addition to the scourge of violence (see Fides 14/05/2014). (CE) (Agenzia Fides 11/12/2014)


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