Drugs and crime gain new priority in Argentina
The security emergency decree aims to focus efforts on an issue of citizen concern, but its success is questionable
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- Provincial police
- Drug challenges
- Rising consumption
- Cartel presence
- Political spillover
- Poverty and insecurity
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_350.jpg "An official from the Federal Public Revenue Administration tax agency and a sniffer dog check sacks of rice for drugs, in Buenos Aires (Reuters/Directorate General of Customs/AFIP/Handout via Reuters)")