Drug traffickers gaining influence by stepping in and offering donations after Milei’s sweeping social cuts
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n a small colourful room tucked away in the south of Argentina’s capital, Buenos Aires, four women are making bread and pizza bases, the bright spring sun shining strong outside the windows, which are covered in black metal mesh.
Inside, the radio blast upbeat tunes, but the mood is grim: the neighbourhood has been shaken by the livestreamed torture and murder of two young women and a girl allegedly at the hands of a drug trafficker who lived just a few blocks away.
“Things are very tough,” says one of the women, who asked not to be named. “What they did to those girls shows how drug trafficking gang are gaining power.”
