Virginia Messi
02/06/2021 16:00
Clarín.com
Police
Updated 02/06/2021 16:00
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Robert Wilmer De la Cruz Aredo (38, Peru)
everyone in the village 1-11-14 know him by his nickname: "Mascarita".
Following the 24-year prison sentence imposed on
Marco Estrada Gonzáles (57, alias "Marcos")
last November, his position as a henchman of the drug lord left him in a vulnerable situation.
If anyone had doubts about the blow that this verdict represented for "Marcos", which included 37 members of his criminal structure (including his wife), what happened to "Mascarita" a few weeks later cleared up any questions.
At dawn on Sunday, December 20, four armed youths entered a little bar on Mazana 22 de la Villa 1-11-14.
There De la Cruz had a drink with three friends.
The hitmen opened fire on the group.
According to a witness, the attackers went directly to a table in the back where "Mascarita" was.
The two women who were tending the place grounded behind the bar and only managed to see one of the young men, who was wearing a hood, escape with the rest.
"Mascarita" was referred to the Piñero Hospital with seven bullets.
He miraculously survived and is still on crutches.
The narco Marco Estrada Gonzáles, alias "Marcos", imprisoned in Ezeiza.
The attack on Robert Wilmer De la Cruz inaugurated a new era of bidding, crime, revenge and alliances, the latter still weak.
Everything for the control of a specific sector of the town:
from block 13 to block 25 and 31.
With "Marcos" out of the game (detail: after the conviction, expulsion from the country awaits him) in the Bajo Flores settlement, drug violence in pursuit of the territory intensified.
The attempted murder of "Mascarita" was Chapter 1 of this new war that brings back memories of 20 years ago when Marco Estrada Gonzáles and Alionzo Rutillo Ramos Mariño ("Ruti") fought for the power of the area.
The second chapter of this new stage did not wait long.
The revenge for what happened on December 20 took place around 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, January 7, in an emblematic corner of the neighborhood: Riestra and Bonorino.
There, Eddi Martel Valverde (53, alias "El Loco Eddi") and Manuel Armando Ortega Huanci (46, alias "Cau Cau" or "Cojo Armando") were assassinated.
The baker Luis Ernesto Velasco Mercado (48) also ended up shot, although he had nothing to do with the situation.
Those who know the genealogy of drug power within the town of Bajo Flores maintain that those who died on January 7 belonged to the group of
Fernando "Pity" Estrada Gonzáles (58)
, "Marcos's older brother," today a fugitive and living in Peru. .
And here comes the most interesting: as perpetrators of this last act, men from "Marcos" are pointed out, who sought to avenge Mascarita.
What does this mean?
That the Estrada Gonzales are in a fight, they have not spoken for a long time and before the fall from grace of "Marcos", "Pity" decided to advance on the stalls that previously had to alternate every 28 days with his brother.
In reality, the wave of violence that precipitated the conviction of "Marcos" is nothing more than the resurgence of something that had already been cooking in the neighborhood since the beginning of 2019.
At that time
Clarín
published a note entitled "They raid the Villa 1-11-14 for fear of a war between narco brothers" in which there was already talk
of "Pity's intentions to unseat" Marcos "
, who continued to manage his shifts four weeks from jail and made more profit.
In this new attack, which already has deaths and injuries, they say that "Pity" has partners and that today the drug map of the Peruvian sector of 1-11-14 is still in the making.
So much so that from the side of "Marcos" they assure that he no longer has the courage to fight the territory of anyone and that his wife Silvana Salazar (sentenced to 18 years, also in November) seriously fears that in the revolution they will kill her in the jail.
Last Friday, February 5, the judges of the Federal Oral Court No. 3 announced the grounds of the sentence imposed in November.
Years and years of investigation by judge Sergio Torres and PROCUNAR ended up displayed in 2,216 pages of sentence.
Forceful end of an era.
Those, these and those
In October 2020, the City Police released a report in which they claimed that thanks to their own investigation they had arrested a powerful 28-year-old drug lord nicknamed "Dumbo", who had links with the heads of the 1-11-14 .
"Dumbo" is indeed a budding drug lord who grew up under the wing of "Pity" Estrada Gonzales in Bajo Flores.
But at the end of 2018 he moved and began to forge his own power in the Piedrabuena neighborhood, located in Castañares and General Paz.
According to the sources consulted by
Clarín
, the error is that "Dumbo" did not fall in October 2020: in reality the detainee was another drug dealer of lesser rank.
"Dumbo" would remain free and currently he would be in alliance with his former mentor ("Pity") to stomp once and for all at 1-11-14.
"Pity", brother of Marco Estrada Gonzáles, alias "Marcos", along with his son, Jonathan Estrada Reyes.
Those who know the details of the story maintain that at first, back in 2018,
"Pity" demanded a fee from "Dumbo" to let him work quietly
at the Piedrabuena.
Something like if "Dumbo" had to pay for a franchising as a representative of a brand of alfajores.
When "Dumbo" refused to pay the toll, he and "Pity" were at odds.
But this changed with the conviction of "Marcos".
The sentence would have caused that, for the time being, "Pity" and "Dumbo" joined forces to annul any vestige of "Marcos" in the town.
And that is why in the attack on "Mascarita" on December 20, people from "Dumbo" are singled out as manpower in the service of "Pity".
The first great war for the control of the sale of cocaine, paco and marijuana in the 1-11-14 ("Marcos" vs "Ruti") left around the beginning of 2000 a score of deaths scattered throughout different parts of the city.
Everything is in motion, everything remains to be seen.
Nobody knows what will happen now, but the neighbors have memories.
And they feel terrified.
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