Overview
- On Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026, Governor Maximiliano Pullaro opened the Jornadas Nacionales e Internacionales de los Ministerios Públicos Fiscales in Rosario by publicly defending the provincial Ministerio Público de la Acusación (MPA) and its head María Cecilia Vranicich.
- Pullaro accused the federal justice system of years of 'impunity,' pointed to two federal judges in Rosario who face detention or suspension, and used those cases to argue past federal failures allowed groups such as Los Monos to flourish.
- The governor and MPA officials credited a coordinated, prosecution-led plan for a sharp fall in homicides, citing figures comparing roughly 223 killings in the Rosario department by this point in 2023 to 62 so far in 2026 and a provincewide drop from 313 to 112.
- Pullaro urged investigations of lawyers, accountants and notaries he said advise criminal groups and criticized what he called 'garantismo bobo,' a legal culture he says romanticized offenders and hampered effective prosecution.
- The two-day conference continues with national and international prosecutors and panels on narcocriminality, microtrafficking and cybercrime, and it has become the stage for a provincial push to expand prosecutorial power and test relations with the federal judiciary.