The Church Denounces the “Absence of the State” After the Murder and Quartering of Three Young People in Buenos Aires

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This Friday the Argentine Church has spoken out against the “absence of the State” in connection with the murder of three young people this week in the Buenos Aires party of Florencio Varela, located in the south of Buenos Aires. “We need a present state,” she said in a statement. The text, published by the National Commission for the Pastoral Care of Addictions and Drug Dependence of the Argentine episcopate, states: “We sympathize with the fam…

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The brutal murder of Lara Gutierrez (15), Brenda del Castillo (20) and Morena Verdi (20) in Florencio Varela revived the concern of the Catholic Church for the advance of drug trafficking. The National Commission for the Pastoral Care of Addictions and Drug Dependency of the Episcopate issued a statement in which it again demanded a greater presence of the State to prevent “death and pain from taking over the lives of our brothers.” In the text,…

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Three young people were found dead and evicted in a residence of Florencio Varela, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, less than a week after they disappeared in La Matanza. The case, which follows under the rule of justice, has already resulted in 12 people's imprisonment, and the official hypothesis points to a record of accounts ordered by a fugitive trafficker, in the context of a drug traffic-related charge.

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The families of the victims dismissed the young women in the midst of scenes of pain and demands for justice, while the investigation advanced with the international arrest request of Matías Agustín Ozorio, a 28-year-old young man, named as the right hand of the drug dealer nicknamed “Small J”, accused of being the ideologist of the murders. Prosecutors maintain that the victims were kidnapped, tortured and maimed as part of an internal message …

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The Church expressed its solidarity with the families of Morena, Brenda and Lara, and maintained that this is “a tragic episode, product of the advance of drug trafficking, especially in the most vulnerable neighborhoods of our country”.

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For bishops of different dioceses, the murders of the three young women constitute "a tragic episode in our society, the product of the advance of drug trafficking, especially in the most vulnerable neighborhoods of our country." In addition, they raise the need "for the presence of the State, through the organs of justice and security, in order to support each of the institutions that are present in the neighborhoods."