Argentina: A bill to modify the National Registry of Genetic Data was presented in the Senate

The head of the Juntos por el Cambio interbloc in the Senate, Alfredo Cornejo (UCR- Mendoza), and the national deputy Juan Martín (UCR – Santa Fe) presented this Thursday a project that aims to modify Law No. 26,879, on the National Registry of Genetic Data, with the aim of making it “useful for all criminal investigations.”

From the Emar Acosta Auditorium Hall, in the Alfredo Palacios building of the Senate, the legislators were accompanied by Dr. Miguel Marino, director of the Provincial Registry of Digitalized Genetic Fingerprinting of Mendoza; Isabel Yaconis, from Asociación Madres del Dolor, and Guillermo Bargna, from Usina de Justicia.

Speaking at the event, Cornejo thanked his counterpart Martín for his interest in the issues of insecurity, which “a good part of the political leadership remembers during the campaign, but does not work on them in depth,” and regretted that it is “Argentina’s main problem.” Inflation takes the lead because it is unusual, but insecurity affects almost all of our cities and requires professional treatment from politicians and, in particular, the proper use of technical and human resources.”

Along these lines, he recalled that in his experience as governor of Mendoza “we focused a lot on that,” and pointed out: “I say this about politics because there is a general feeling that it is possible to live with inflation and insecurity.”

“It is unbearable to live with inflation and insecurity,” Cornejo said, arguing that this “generates a poor quality of life for most people, both collectively and individually. Only a few people, even with a lot of capital, can protect themselves from problems such as insecurity, and yet they can still become victims.”