Government Changes Its Reform Proposal: Toughen Penalties for Ordinary Crimes, but Not for Corruption Cases

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Priority will be given to the tightening of penalties but not to officials, and there will be major changes in money laundering and crimes against humanity; new figures such as motochorros or black widows are incorporated; it leaves sensitive debates such as abortion and femicide in pause

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Buenos Aires, 29 March (NA) – The criminalist and former judge Eduardo Gerome analyzed the draft reform of the Penal Code promoted by the national government and considered that the update is “absolutely necessary”, recalling that the current rule dates from 1921. In dialogue with Radio Rivadavia to which the Agencia Noticias Argentinas agreed, he said that the multiple partial modifications made over the years generated “asymmetries in the pena…