Last Friday, while the shooting at the supermarket belonging to the Rocuzzo-Messi family was still making noise in Argentina and in a large part of the world's press, several Santa Fe Police vans and around fifteen motorized agents guarded for hours
a room for funeral services in Rosario
.
Parallel to the international media leap of Los Monos,
one of the daughters of the "founder" of that narco gang, Ariel Máximo "El Viejo" Cantero
, had died, who ended up watching over the young woman in a place ultra-monitored by security forces.
In Rosario, the police guard the dead and their relatives, perhaps more effectively than the living.
After several murders committed in the form of a "vendetta" by drug traffickers in the same wake rooms as other deaths of their enemies in the drug business, the Association of Funeral Companies demanded that the authorities guarantee police presence
in the
obsequies
With this custody of the ceremonies to dismiss the dead, it could prevent even more people from dying.
It has not yet been determined whether the attack on the business of Messi's in-laws was an action of the organized drug crime that devastates Rosario.
But Los Monos
were the ones who are paying that bill for now
due to their violent methods that have spread throughout the city for twenty years, which became the largest in the entire country in the fateful statistics of calculating the rate of violent homicides per hundred thousand inhabitants.
Since two unknown men lacerated the front of the Rocuzzo business with those fourteen shots last Thursday night, the political power of Peronism, which is the ruling party in Santa Fe and at the national level, seems to have awakened from a long lethargy after decades of
growth
. narco in a province that, between 2007 and until 2019, was governed by Socialism.
The Kirchners, and the current two-fronted management of the Frente del Todos,
evaded the different early warnings that occurred in Rosario
during its heyday in central power.
The bullets that affect the Messi now cause a reaction that comes late and spasms.
The current mayor of Rosario, Pablo Javkin, also a socialist, like Governor Miguel Lifschitz before him, and Antonio Bonfatti before him, and before him Hermes Binner, faced the
scourge of the narco advance that came now
without national help, or with little federal help.
to hellish levels.
Suddenly, after Javkin's unheeded prayers since he assumed the Rosario mayor, the Casa Rosada
now tries to respond to what it did not give before.
Since the Rocuzzo Supermarket was shot until yesterday afternoon, in Rosario there were three more deaths by the drug "mafia".
In just 24 hours, the Justice raided
the prisons of Ezeiza, Rawson and Marcos Paz
, where what was already known was detected: the leader of Los Monos, "Guille" Cantero, enjoyed the prohibited privilege
of having access to telephones
from his dungeon in which he is serving a sentence of 96 years in prison.
The Judiciary insisted on raiding those prison complexes because prosecutors and judges had irrefutable evidence that "Guille" Cantero continued
to run his businesses and his directives to kill enemies
while locked up and under the supposed control of the Federal Penitentiary Service (SPF), just like the others raided in other prison facilities.
One day after those raids that clarified what was already known by the authorities, the Justice also took action against two former police chiefs for alleged coexistence with the drug gangs: millions of pesos in cash, dollars and weapons were found.
This occurs, in parallel, to inmates between leaders of the PJ of Santa Fe and a sector of the Casa Rosada team, who talk about the issue as if instead of playing the soccer game, they are actually commenting on it from the
audience
.
The deaths in Rosario continued.
And they will continue because the problem of organized or disorganized crime in the city is complex and it has been years without a plan or a professional course.
The rate of violent homicides in the city, in the province, began to rise in 2013 after the murder of another of the sons of "El Viejo" Cantero who had inherited leadership over Los Monos, nicknamed "El Pájaro" Cantero
.
That death unleashed the reply of the gang that launched a revenge that continued for years, with deaths and deaths on one side and the other, and on other sides of gangs that grew despite the desperate signs that they gave to a National Government. , that of the Kirchners, which he preferred not to do in Socialist territory.
Today, under the government of the Peronist Omar Perotti, the scenario
has become more complex.
The only Minister of Security of the Province who managed to lower the rate of violent homicides by drug traffickers during his four years in office
was Maximiliano Pullaro
, who held that position under the governorship of Miguel Lifschitz.
When he took office in 2015, that fatal number was 271 deaths per year.
In 2019, it had dropped to 164 deaths from crime gangs every 365 days.
Today that rate rose again to reach 288 murdered in the same period of time.
The alerts ignored by the central government of the K were too many.
One of them, a milestone, was the shooting that two motorists fired at the house of the acting governor, Antonio Bonfatti.
As Javkin repeats these days, Pullaro agrees with the diagnosis:
"Kirchnerism has always left the province alone."
Facts are facts.
With the arrival of the Government of Cambiemos to the Presidency,
"Monchi" Cantero was arrested after four years of life as a fugitive.
According to sources from the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI), and from the former SIDE, the investigating judge of Santa Fe Juan Carlos Vienna asked national espionage to intervene 280 telephone lines that belonged to or were used by the Canteros and the
rest of the Monkeys.
In those audios, "Monchi" could be heard negotiating the financing for the purchase of
soccer players from a team from the first A of the Federal Capital.
Judge Vienna was discredited after discovering
a photo of him in Las Vegas with a drug leader opposed to Los Monos.
But from 2013 to 2015, despite wiretapping, the K security forces never found “Monchi”.
On June 7, 2016, with the intervention of the district, national, and AFI Security Ministry, "Monchi" Cantero was arrested in his lifelong neighborhood, near the Circunvalación at the entrance to Rosario from Route 9 that reaches from Buenos Aires to the city.
And before?
The gang's infiltration of the local police reached such a point that, according to espionage sources, one of the policemen who at one point withdrew the product of the tapping of the Los Monos telephones by the former SIDE delegation in Rosario
was assassinated
.
They stole the cidis with the content of those talks.
Today, the heirs of "El Viejo" Cantero are in custody.
Although with the help of the penitentiaries led by former judge K María Laura Garrigós de Rébori
they enjoyed privileges in terms of telephone communication with the outside world
.
With those calls from within the walls, Los Monos continued to act.
The advance of drug trafficking in Argentina was also alerted by the former SIDE at the time when its General Director of Operations was Antonio Stiuso.
Nilda Garré was Minister of Security when she received a report from the secret service
indicating that cocaine produced by the Colombian cartel Del Valle Norte
had begun to move within Argentina at worrying levels.
It had also been Stiuso's former SIDE that detected, by chemical specialists who worked at the Argentine Postal Service detecting dangerous chemicals, tasks that had been implemented since the AMIA attack was committed, that the arrival of material that could be used
in bacteriological warfare
.
The recipient was a ghost name.
The Counterintelligence Directorate under the command of Stiuso investigated the case.
This led to a town in Santa Fe, Fisherton, where it was detected that a lucid specialist in the use of chemicals and chemical precursors to manufacture drugs lived.
It was
Mario Segovia,
later known as “The King of Ephedrine”.
Today sentenced to a 16-year prison sentence that he served largely in the Ezeiza Complex, it is known that Segovia manufactured methamphetamine of such quality that he was the one who exported it to Mexico.
As the journalist Daniel Santoro recounts in his book
"La Ruta de la Efedrina",
Segovia had gold bars, weapons for a battalion and a lot of cash when his house was raided.
Ephedrine, cocaine, Los Monos, spies, complicit and honest policemen.
Twenty years of action by a band of marginal multimillionaires in Rosario, Los Monos, all happened
without the political authorities K acting on it.
In 2017, two journalists, Germán de los Santos and Hernán Lascano, published the book "Los Monos, History of the narco family that transformed Rosario into hell."
It was a revealing text.
It begins with a quote that is still current today, written by the English novelist, although born in today's Ukraine, Joseph Conrad, in his work Lord Jim.
He says thus:
"... the silent company of the dead..."
The shots at the Messi business may finally change
an irrepressible inertia of blood spilled
by shots from drug traffickers in the streets of Rosario.
Too much.
