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Beyond the noise caused by the public discussion that these scenes caused, the official who integrates the cabinet of Axel Kicillof revealed in an interview an alarming fact associated with the economic crisis that crosses the Argentina as a result of the quarantine and the coronavirus pandemic: more and more people go out to steal in order to survive.
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In dialogue with Luis Novaresio in the program Stray animals, the Buenos Aires minister stated: “For the first time we are arresting people who had clean records, who commit survival crimes” And before the questions, he developed: “This pandemic in the world has generated an economic crisis so great that some say that this is the last effort and I say no! This is the first of all the efforts we have to make because after the pandemic we are going to have to put a country on its feet. “
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Berni is not the first leader to associate a possible increase in crime with confinement. The intervener of the Penitentiary Service, María Laura Garrigós de Rébori, had projected a similar scenario when the quarantine ends. “The day we leave the quarantine we will have a peak in property crime“As a consequence of the economic recession and the impact on the social situation that the pandemic will bring,” he declared.
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Berni highlighted the efforts made by the provincial and national governments to assist 29 million people who suffer the consequences of compulsory isolation. However, he recalled that Argentina is a country that had been “typing”, “with terrible problems”, which in the coming months could worsen with indicators never seen before.
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Yesterday, President Alberto Fernández led a nearly three-hour meeting with his economic cabinet where all these variables were analyzed, but there were no announcements about new aid programs. The ATP (subsidy to pay salaries of private companies that meet certain requirements) and zero-rate loans for monotributistas continue to be in force. The Buenosairean government also announced that it will not charge the ABL to non-essential items.
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