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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Josefina Salomón and Patricio A Cabezas in Buenos Aires

Drug traffickers gaining influence in Argentina amid Milei’s sweeping social cuts

A woman holds a placard during a demonstration. It reads: Brenda, Morena and Lara. We demand justice now!'
The torture and murder of two young women and a girl, allegedly by a drug trafficker, has caused outrage in Buenos Aires. Photograph: Luis Robayo/AFP/Getty Images

In 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.

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