The so-called Agenda against Organized Crime and Terrorism (ACOT) contains some 30 measures, and the Executive hopes it will be adopted before Christmas.

“We are going to analyze each project on its merits, point by point,” said Congressman Raul Soto, president of the Partido por la Democracia (Party for Democracy-PPD), who nevertheless warned that the major omission from this mega-reform is the lifting of bank secrecy.

The legislator stated, “You cannot follow the money trail, you cannot attack the heart of organized crime if you do not weaken its economic power.”

Among the measures announced by the president are the permanent deployment of police in the country’s 50 most dangerous neighborhoods, the expansion of detention for undocumented migrants, and the reinforcement of borders with trenches, drones, and continuous technological monitoring.

The Communist Party expressed its willingness to discuss measures aimed at strengthening intelligence, pursuing drug money, improving coordination between police and prosecutors, and providing municipalities with greater preventative capabilities.

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