Crime in the streets grows as the security authorities remain unconcerned

During this weekend, the shootings and murders were in the headlines once again in a pattern of insecurity in the streets fact which, despite being obvious, is denied by the authorities.

 "Saying that insecurity will end is a utopia, but when the facts are becoming more and more frequent in full daylight... something is not well, and authorities must act accordingly", warned the community leader on the Atlantic Coast, Cecilio Lay.

On Saturday morning, in the city of Colon another murder took place where the criminals did not care about the presence of transients and eyewitnesses.

 At about 7:00 a.m., Guillermo Alfonso Jimenez Ramos, 32, received several shots on his way to work, in the sector which leads to the airport and to some projects in Altos de los Lagos.

Amid the shooting, another person who was on his way to work (Gilberto Chiari) was injured in one of his legs, so it was necessary to take him to get medical care urgently.

Those crimes, which occurred in the presence of dozens of workers, prompted the protest of IBT project workers, who reiterated that authorities have ignored their claim for an increased police presence in the public sector.

And if it rains on the Atlantic coast, in the capital city it pours, with another violent blood crime in an area of a high flow of people.

Also, this Saturday, five people were injured during a rain of bullets, when armed men stormed violently into a nightclub on via Argentina.

This act provoked the partial closure of this important venue at which later that day criminology experts arrived.

After the incident, inhabitants of the sector carried out pickets denouncing the lack of security in these nightclubs which are interspersed among private residences.

During this new shooting event on via Argentina, the former Auxiliary Prosecutor, Neftalí Jaén, commented in his Twitter account, that "at times it all sounds like stray bullets", but we should not rule out that the civilian population may have become a parallel and direct victim of acts of "gang revenge".

But these striking blood-sheds contrast with the vision of the President of the Republic, Juan Carlos Varela, who last week accused television stations of "creating panic and affecting investment".

Professor Juan Jované questioned the President's words and wondered if Varela "will blame on the news forecasts or the University students" for the victims of the shootings this weekend in Juan Díaz, Colón and on Vía Argentina.

 "And yet he wants to increase the retirement monthly amount to the Police commissioners to 7 thousand dollars," said Jované, in reference to the recent confirmation that senior police managers do deal with gangs.