 The police in Argentina have a history of killing reformers and killing sex workers.A few years earlier, investigators in Mar del Plata had uncovered a police conspiracy to use a fictional serial killer to cover up the murder of thirty two sex workers,

killed because they wanted to leave their pimps, who were paying the police.The Santa Fe police killed the social activist Claudio Lepratti during the disturbances of 2001 when he tried to warn them off from firing at a school where children were eating lunch.