Stella Calloni
Correspondent
The newspaper La Jornada
Friday, August 2, 2024, p. 26
Buenos Aires, The government of far-right President Javier Milei sent to Congress a bill to allow the armed forces to participate in internal security in the fight against terrorism and can control people and vehicles that may be considered suspicious and proceed to arrests in flagrante delictoin addition to the creation of a crisis committee, which together with other recent measures by the Ministry of National Security set off a red alert in human rights organizations, under the scrutiny of the current administration.
In relation to the crisis committee, you must classify the situation as Terrorist actions that aim to frighten the population and endanger life, liberty, independence, sovereignty, integrity or self-determinationThis was announced today by presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni, while Milei maintains that his government proposes military reconciliation, and steps are being taken to release the military detained for crimes against humanity, which do not have a statute of limitations and at a time when remains of people who disappeared during the past military dictatorship continue to be found.
The project determines that the crisis committee may order the armed forces to take measures such as: patrolling, control of people and vehicles, checkpoint operations at fixed or mobile points and providing security for permanent and non-permanent installations in specially designated areas and for a limited time and arresting in flagrante delicto.
The actions of the armed forces in these situations must have the authorization from the governor or governors of the affected areas. And in these cases The use of force will be governed by the same terms as those used by the five national security forces, with the carrying out of internal security operations in this area being expressly authorized..
This determines that there will be a representative of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Planning and Control Center of the Undersecretary of Internal Security of the Nation.
In case the military should use material means of coercion in a deterrent or effective manner must do so in a rational, progressive and proportional manner. His actions It will be classified as a violation of duty and therefore not punishable under the terms of article 34 of the penal code..
This means erasing the constitutional article that prevented the armed forces from participating in internal security, which was imposed after the last bloody military dictatorship. It is doubly serious because, in addition to their historic role being to defend national sovereignty, they cannot now be tried.
Together with the disastrous announcement of the Artificial Intelligence Unit to carry out a cyber patrol imposed by the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, it means the intervention in private life, the control of telephones, computers and others, through which they can obtain all types of communication and form profiles of suspects which leads to raids and ensures political persecution enabled.
Dictatorial decisionsPérez Esquivel denounces
Consulted by La Jornada, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1980, warned that given the serious situation that the country is experiencing, these new ones are added decisions dictatorial, who try to erase everything that had been achieved in rights and The way of peace.
This is serious and very dangerous for all the people when national sovereignty is already in danger. and pointed out the need to prevent these projects from being voted on in Congress, because will allow violations of all rights and the progress we had made and that the world supported us and respected us.”
