After last week the Minister of National Security, Patricia Bullrichwill reveal that the border area in the north of the country is under a alert categorized as “high threat” due to the presence – according to the official – of suspected elements of Iranian origin In neighboring countries, it was confirmed that national security forces were working together with the corresponding areas of the provinces in measures to strengthen security in bordering areasas is the case of Jujuy.
In this sense, the provincial security minister William Corroand the head of Group IX of the Argentine National Gendarmerie (GNA), Carlos Sdunek“they toured the various steps not enabled at the international boundary La Quiaca – Villazón”, within the framework of the so-called “Operation Northern Border”official sources said.
THE PROBLEM OF ILLEGAL STEPS
The city of The Quiaca It is located 284 km north of the capital San Salvador de Jujuy and borders the Bolivian city of Villazón, where the only legal step enabled is he international bridge “Dr. “Horacio Guzmán”where the Border Control offices corresponding to Immigration, Customs and others operate.
At the time the minister I run indicated that the border line of the province with that country to the north and with Chile to the west comprises about 600 kilometers long.
The greatest concern of the forces is placed on the activity observed in the numerous illegal crossings, which is why Corro and Sdunek were established in La Quiaca to carry out the routein which the local mayor also participated Dante Velasquezofficials of the provincial Ministry and officials of the GNA Squadron 21 with seat in the border city.
The purpose was to supervise the actions of the so-called “Operation Northern Border”that in meetings between Jujuy authorities and officials of the Ministry of National Security It was decided to reinforce by planning and establishing measures “in order to counteract illicit activities and the passage of people through non-authorized areas”defined the sources.
Precisely in the last few hours, information was known that accounts for a procedure carried out in the border city by GNA troops, which They intercepted and disrupted a smuggling maneuver of more than ten million pesos in cash that a man was carrying in a backpack.
The magnitude of the deployment arranged in Jujuy was reflected in the fact that members of the security cabinet and officials of the areas Complex Crimes, Secretariat of Security, Road Safety and the Provincial Policeof which troops from the Special Corps, Investigation and Drug Trafficking Brigades, Fire Department and Regional Unit Five with seat in La Quiaca.