Public Safety Emergency Decree Generates Controversy in Argentina

[Judi Lynn]

Public Safety Emergency Decree Generates Controversy in Argentina

Buenos Aires, Jan 21 (Prensa Latina) Controversy grows in Argentina following President Mauricio Macriâ�Ös decree for a Public Safety Emergency, as well as other recent dispositions, due to the military implications and the risks they entail.
This declaration overrides the Homeland Security Act, giving more power to the military, authority to the Ai Force to take down aircrafts and makes flexible the controls over the purchases in this area, media outlets report.

The official argument is the "collective danger situation" that could exist in the country and aims at fighting drug trafficking, among other crimes, including the "illegal terrorist association", the Pagina 12 journal reported today.

Former Secretary of National Security Sergio Berni warned about the decree that validates the attack to suspicious airplanes crossing the Argentinean air space. "It is a death sentence without a trial", he said.

Even Deputy Margarita Stolbitzer, who contributed to Macriâ�Ös electoral victory, said that approving by decree the shooting-down of airplanes is a huge institutional mistake that may have irreversible consequences and does not solve the problem of drug trafficking.

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[bemildred]

1. What a buffoon. nt

[forest444]

2. Macri's Security Secretary, Eugenio Burzaco, is the brother of FIFA briber Alejandro Burzaco.

A warrant was issued for Alejandro Burzaco's arrest in relation to the notorious FIFA corruption case last year, where FBI documents show he paid $110 million in bribes to allow his broadcast company, TyC, to retain regional football media rights.

TyC, btw, is co-owned by the 'Fox News of Argentina', the Clarín Group - which the FBI verified to be holding 11 undeclared Panamanian accounts.

I take it Macri won't be downing their cash-filled planes.