Colorado Party as a collective and in particular the most representative, Senator Pedro Bordaberry, was launched weapons and baggage to the campaign to enable a referendum to lower the age of criminal responsibility from 18 to 16 years. The initiative needs 250 000 signatures to enable a vote simultaneously with the 2014 elections. According to press reports has 70 000 signatures collected. Overall violence and involvement in it of minors is a problem in the world and in Uruguay as well. We do not intend to deny or diminish its impact. But the referendum promoted by Bordaberry is not the answer, nay, even tries to be.
There are many reasons to support this view but to be clear the sum up by 5 points.
First .- The increased penalties and treatment of children and older were tested in several countries around the world and failed. An emblematic case is that of El Salvador where the government first promoted Arena "Strong Hand" and then "Super Hand" and could only that youth gangs were stronger, so did not stop the crime. Another publicized case of the New York with their "Zero Tolerance" promoted by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, sold as a global example, had an impact at first, now everything is as before and in some areas has worsened. Second .-
Bordaberry campaign assumes that children are unpunished today in Uruguay. That's not true. As noted by UNICEF, "The Code of Children and Adolescents provides for the submission to a specific trial of persons between 13 and 18. Establishing a set of crimes considered most serious offenses 'the law' - murder, rape, robbery, kidnapping - and refers to all those offenses under the Penal Code. The judges have broad powers to dispose of the deprivation of liberty, even as a precautionary measure, that is, as a preliminary step to determine whether or not the teenager committed the crime. " Bordaberry what is proposed then that juvenile offenders can be punished, because that is possible today. What he seeks is that juveniles are tried as adults. That violates all international norms and also to reiterate it once again, where he failed.
Third .- There are 260 thousand teenagers in Uruguay, while which are in breach of the law are about 1,000. In cases filed in court involving children who are placed in 5.6% and the remaining 94.4% is played by adults. The number of juvenile crimes has remained stable, although it has grown on historical records. Police procedures have increased and the detention of juvenile offenders as well. It seeks to improve the prevention and repression of crimes, but today is not the fundamental problem. The main problem in the case of minority offenders, as consensus of all players except Bordaberry, is in the rehabilitation system and detention, the role of INAU in compliance penalties, in search of reintegration. Were made and efforts are made. Is promoting changes to the Code of Childhood and Adolescence, certainly controversial, particularly with regard to the maintenance of criminal records. Some want to stay in a comprehensive way, now arises for certain crimes and for a while. Others consider it inconvenient and violates international conventions. It promotes the creation of the National Institute of Youth Rehabilitation to ensure that sanctioned under the law to serve their sentences without running away and do so in the context of rehabilitation. Bordaberry initiative does not solve any of this, that is, we repeat the main problem in terms of lower offenders. Fourth .- Bordaberry
integrated as the worst government minister in the history of Uruguay, Jorge Batlle. Is directly responsible before, during and after, the implementation of policies that devastated the Uruguay, generated an unprecedented social divisions, sent nearly one million Uruguayans poverty, unemployment and multiplied dropout. Bordaberry not in charge of his work and now calls repression to deal with their consequences. Uruguayan youth today, despite all the progress, is one of the hardest hit sectors of society. Of the 112,000 registered unemployed on average in 2010, almost half were under 25 years. 17.9% of young people neither study nor work. The poverty and indigence rates among youth are nearly three times as nationals. Bordaberry all you propose is repression. In the election campaign raised to lower the age of criminal responsibility to 14 years, create a DNA databank of criminals and reapply the Decree of the dictatorship of 1980, which enabled the raids. That is the true face of his proposal for young people: first policies that generate poverty and exclusion and then repression. Five .-
violence in general and of children in particular, is complex and requires the commitment of the entire society. The government of the FA, with successes and failures, defined it as one of the five subjects to agree State policies. Bordaberry cut alone and launched his campaign, even knowing that there are things he proposes, if they are approved for in 5 years, which will begin to apply today. Have spoken out against the FA, most of the National Party, Independent Party, the labor movement, UNICEF and even sectors of the Church. But Bordaberry does not care. It is his personal campaign and makes thinking in 2014 and in its application and not on solutions to youth or for violence. What does standing on a furious media campaign. Although juvenile crime have remained stable the minutes spent on television with young offenders grew 259% in Over four years. Bordaberry firms together surrounded by cameras and microphones. Is right, with its conception and financial means and media to the right. Chose this way to be in campaign four years. Violence and youth involvement in it, responds to economic causes, social and cultural rights; the increase is the son of a social model that marginalizes the majority of the population and reproduce poverty. In a society that deifies consumerism and personal as a paradigm that puts continued access to goods while marginalizing the majority of the population.
Uruguay is discussing their problems, largely under discussion itself; how to integrate young people, all young people is crucial. Let's do it without hiding anything, without denying our wounds, but far from the electoral demagogy and media operations. We deserve it.
Source: Popular
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