Insecurity in Malvín Norte and the advance of drug traffickers

The failure of the State: insecurity in Malvín Norte does not give truce

Vivir en la capital uruguaya se has become a Russian roulette, and the Insecurity en Malvin North It is the crudest example of a State that decided to surrender to crime. The residents of this area no longer know what it is to walk calmly; His routine is dictated by the unofficial curfew that the drug traffickers impose at sunset.

This week, the indignation boiled over. Tired of living with daily shootings, violent robberies and the audacity of criminals armed to the teeth, residents stood up to the authorities. What they are asking is not a favor, it is their basic right: to be able to go out on the street without being shot for a cell phone.

The meeting on March 5 with Víctor Abal, the director of Coexistence and Citizen Security, it seemed like a joke. While bureaucrats talk about "coexistence" from their air-conditioned offices, people in the neighborhoods have to dodge bullets. “Every day there are weapons, every day there are shootings,” they yelled in the official's face.

A neighborhood at war and a collapsed emergency system

The story of those who live there makes your hair stand on end. Chases in moto a plena luz of the day, stolen vehicles that end in brutal crashes and a 911 service that, when urgently needed, responds with scandalous delays due to "lack of cell phones."

The recent data is terrifying. On March 1st, a group of criminals attacked a patrol with stones de la Republican Guard, leaving two troops injured. In what serious country do criminals run to the shock forces? On March 3, the madness went up a notch: 16 shells from a 9-millimeter caliber pistol ended up embedded in the facade of a house after a confrontation.

This armed violence sustained has forced the police to use non-lethal ammunition to try to contain a situation that had long since gotten out of hand.

The inheritance of the right and the ineffectiveness of the left

This is where we have to take off our masks and distribute the blame to the entire political spectrum, because no one is saved. The current leader of Home Office, Carlos Negro, took office in March 2025 promising to lower crime rates. A year later, his management is leaking everywhere. The official statements celebrating "Better results" are a lack of respect for the worker who comes home trembling.

But be careful, let's not believe the story that this started yesterday. The coalition that governed before (with Lacalle Pou at the head) filled his mouth shouting that "recess was over. They won the elections promising to sweep away the drug traffickers and they left a country where the shootings in Montevideo They became common currency.

The current progressive ineffectiveness, which continues to see the criminal as a "victim of society", is as guilty as the inefficiency of the previous liberal government that did not know how (or did not want to) dismantle the territorial power of the gangs. While the politicians from both sides throw around the numbers For the head in Parliament, the common citizen puts the dead.

What people demand: a strong hand and fewer speeches

Ante este panorama desolador, The paciencia se esfumó. Los neighbors demand a tough hand. They do not want more dialogue tables, nor integration workshops, nor "additional monitoring" that is useless.

They are crying out for permanent police saturation, a night patrol aggressive that recovers the territory and Technology surveillance that works seriously. They want exemplary sentences, that the criminal who carries a firearm illegal to rot in jail and not be released after two months for good behavior.

The limit of patience in the face of insecurity in Malvín Norte

The State has the non-delegable obligation to use legitimate force to crush the mafias. These are not temporary patches to calm the newscasts; HE trata de una ofensiva total contra el crimen organizado that today dominates the streets of our city.

The casta Policy You have to understand that the time for cheap excuses is over. Either they make the political decision to clean up the neighborhoods, or they take responsibility for the blood spilled. We Uruguayans deserve to live in peace, and eradicate the roots of insecurity in Malvín Norte It must be the first non-negotiable step to demonstrate that in this country the law still rules, and not the drug traffickers.