The murders of three poor girls expose the State’s failure against drug trafficking: a river of death drowning the most vulnerable.

The social reuse of assets is a strategic policy to weaken organized crime, repair victims, and rebuild citizens’ trust in democratic institutions.

Argentina is increasingly listening to and trying to design some of the Italian tools for fighting the mafia.

According to the authors, there is an urgent need to confront organized crime. And one of the mechanisms to achieve an effective result is the identification, location and seizure of criminal assets. An initiative by civil society organizations is promoting a law that establishes a rational, efficient and transparent system for the administration of recovered assets.

The phenomenon replicates what occurred in Italy in the late 1980s.