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Brazil & Southern Cone - November 2013 (ISSN 1741-4431)
ARGENTINA: Supreme Court orders action on drugs
On 12 November Argentina’s Supreme Court ordered the national government to take “urgent measures” to intensify the fight against drug-trafficking gangs operating in the northern provinces of Jujuy, Salta and Tucumán. The court's unusual intervention, released in a press statement, was signed by all seven members of Argentina's highest judicial authority. Both government and opposition politicians have been expressing their concern about the extent of drug-related violence in the north of the country since the Argentine Episcopal Conference released a statement at the beginning of November calling for greater political effort in the “drama of drugs and drug-trafficking”.
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