Violence in the Countryside Again: a Producer Was Murdered in Corrientes and Cra Warns that “It Is a Tragedy that Is Repeated”

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In an establishment of the Yurucuá site, near La Cruz, in the south of Corrientes, Melchor Baltazar Díaz, known as “Pitoi”, a 75-year-old producer was killed during an assault in his own house. He was surprised at night, while the gate was closed with his wife. There was virtually no dialogue, as the criminals shot and killed him on the spot. There were at least three men, hooded, who acted with violence that still shocked the region. After redu…

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The violent assault on Corrientes producer Melchor Baltazar “Pitoy” Díaz, who died after receiving three gun shots during the criminal event, triggered a strong demand from the Argentine Rural Confederations (CRA) for concrete progress in the fight against rural insecurity. In a statement written in harsh terms, CRA said that there is outrage in the sector over a context in which crime cases in the countryside are increasingly repeated, and that…