In his editorial on Thursday, September 25, entitled “Pan y Circo”, Jonatan Viale took the triple narco femicide of Florencio Varela as a starting point for a disturbing diagnosis: the violence of the posters is no longer a distant phenomenon. “When did we become Mexico?” He launched, after showing news cuts where live murders and bloody scenes of Mexico or Venezuela are broadcast.
Viale described a “theater of terror” with foreign seal: messages of drug leaders, fierce disciplines and the public exhibition of death as exemplary punishment. According to the driver, this was not born in Argentina, but was imported. “The new comes from outside,” he warned. And he added that it is a typical poster pattern of Mexico, Colombia and Central America: violence turned into a show, terror as a method of communication, death as a message.
The analysis also ran from the strictly feminist axis. “The optics or less is respectable, but the deepest thing is that the Code of Argentine drug trafficking changed. It is a before and after,” he said, stating that the narco not only sells drugs: now he transmits power through fear. Sociologically, he said, a dangerous door opens: the narco as a communicator of terror with his own rules of the game.
To reinforce his hypothesis that this was gradual, he listed “clues”: an mayor of the conurbano like Mario Ishii admitting that he defended drug traffickers and ambulances with Falopa; the then security minister Aníbal Fernández recognizing that “the drug traffickers won” in the time of Alberto Fernández; Axel Kicillof suggesting that many sell drugs due to lack of employment; And a senator like Lewandowski justifying the “little girl” who killed a beach as someone “played in life.”
The result, he concluded, is the consolidation of a narco -state. Rosario as an advance and now the conurbano as a central scenario. Triple femicide, for Viale, not only exposes a social and educational drama: it is the radiography of how Argentina entered a foreign model of organized crime. “They have destroyed this country. They have broken it in a thousand pieces,” he closed with a sentence tone.
