Controversial 2019 Homicide: Patricia Bullrich’s Campaign Spot Sparks Debate on Unsafety

2023-07-11 06:51:45

His team confirmed to PROFILE that it is a murder that occurred in 2019 in Córdoba, since “they do not do populism with insecurity” and that they see “insecurity as something timeless.”

Tuesday, July 11, 2023

The presidential candidate for Together for Change, Patricia Bullrichpublished a series of campaign spots that include first-person testimonies on social problems. The one that deals with unsafety quickly generated controversy, for including a homicide case occurred in 2019when the current candidate was the Minister of Security of the Nation His team, however, assured PROFILE that it was not an accident.

In the spot, the audio of an interview with the retiree’s son is heard Bruno Peak, murdered on February 14, 2019 in an attempted robbery. “We had organized the whole weekend to go fishing. My dad is not coming anymore. Why didn’t they just hurt him? Why did they have to kill him? If the shot in the leg was enough,” denounced Ariel Picco.

in communication with PROFILE, Patricia Bullrich’s team assured that it was not an accident or an oversight, but it was a strategy: So they don’t blame us for doing populism with insecurity or that we say that insecurity is a current problem”, they explained.

After the archival material with the heartbreaking testimony of Bruno Picco’s son, Bullrich’s spot concludes with the phrase: “Do you know what it takes to order the country? Courage.” The origin of the interview was revealed by Shortin a video in which audiovisual archive material is added to the spot, originating in February 2019, the last year of the macrista management.

Patricia Bullrich’s team explained why they used a testimonial from 2019 in the campaign spot

In dialogue with PROFILE, from the circle of the presidential candidate they affirmed that the inclusion of the 2019 testimony “was not an accident.” “Yes, that happened at the time when Patricia was a minister, but because we understand insecurity as something timeless”, they explained.

“To think that during his administration there was zero crimes is not credible and it is not what we want to transmit”, they added and assured that, in any case, during his management in front of the Security portfolio, the homicide rates dropped.

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His team also confirmed that the series of spots was worked with an agency called La Chola and that “they took hold of different situations that Argentines experience, what they did is take the testimony of those who complain about what happens daily.” .

“This so that they don’t blame us for doing populism with insecurity or for saying that insecurity is a problem now”, they communicated and concluded that, as minister, “You are going to face insecurity, but you do not take it to zero crime because that does not exist”.

Another spot in which Bullrich uses images from 2019

In another video shared by the former president of PRO, which dealt with the problem of the economic crisis in Argentina, they used images from a documentary carried out in 2019, where poverty was evident during the management of Mauricio Macri.

The first to point out that little fragment was ignacio corrala communicator who works for different media and who participated in the creation of the piece, who commented on Twitter: “This testimony that Bullrich uses in his campaign spot is part of the documentary ‘Eat in the street’ what did we do with News thread in 2019, during the management of Mauricio Macri”.

Patricia Bullrich used an image of Mauricio Macri’s government in her spot to criticize poverty

In the images in question, a woman appears with a lost look and a baby in her arms who tells that she came to Buenos Aires from Chaco together with the couple who left her, and explains why she ended up on the street: “We are hungry”says in the fragment that he would later appear in Bullrich’s spot.

In subsequent journalistic statements, the communicator explained that neither he nor the director of News thread they were contacted by the campaign team of the ex-minister of Security to request authorization to include your images in campaign .

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