Gang violence in the Argentine city of Rosario has taken the lives of four people in one week as local and federal authorities remain baffled about how to tackle the increasingly worrying situation.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — A rabbi in Rosario, the third most populous city in Argentina, was verbally and physically attacked in violence that has been characterized as anti-Semitic.

Rosario's Health Secretary Leonardo Caruana acknowledged that respirators “would be useful” to alleviate the tension that exists in the city's health system, in which infections have fallen in ...