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X-ray of a drug-city

2023-03-06T12:48:33.514Z


How provincial police officers, business front men for Colombian and Mexican brokers, and barrabravas Newell's and Central coexist.


Several local and international phenomena converged in the forge of the Rosario drug ecosystem.

Among the latter, the crisis of large Colombian and Mexican drug lords during the 80s and 90s stands out.

His heirs discovered, like the Spanish viceroys of the River Plate at the end of the 18th century, that the road to the extreme south of South America could overcome the logistical difficulties of the Caribbean to place their products in the highly profitable European market.

Potosí was replaced by Santa Cruz de la Sierra;

and silver for the highest purity cocaine produced in their laboratories after a long journey from Peru and Bolivia.

It enters Argentine territory in low-altitude planes that, without landing, drop their cargo on fields located in the NOA provinces.

From there, it is transported by "front" companies to the river coast of Santa Fe, where it meets the large shipments of soybeans that are shipped in the port of Rosario and circulate through the Hidrovía.

However, drugs do so preferably from the twenty-two public and private ports spread to the north and south thanks to the collusive assistance of provincial police officers, front businessmen for the Colombian and Mexican brokers, and bullies for the two Rosario soccer clubs.

Newell`s Old Boys and Rosario Central.

Their services are paid in kind with prime cocaine for their “stretched” sale.

Rosario has the advantage of concentrating consumers with great purchasing power from the secondary markets associated with soybean exports.

The smaller ports have the same strategic utility as the small peripheral cities (Gobernador Gálvez, Funes, Villa Cañas, Granadero Baigorria, and Arroyo Seco) where exponents of the local petty bourgeoisie live, enriched as front men for the drug traffickers and who provide them with the platform for laundering their profits here, in their home countries or in the United States.

All of them are discreetly linked with the criminal gangs associated with the barrabravas of the most "spicy" Rosario neighborhoods such as Las Flores, Villa Granada, Villa Banana, etc.

They come from the misery that was incubating as a result of the crisis in the dense world of dock workers, railway workers and the refrigerators of the former “capital of Peronism”.

The ruin of many since the mid-1970s coincided with the influx of immigrants from the NOA and NEA following the crisis of the regional sugar and cotton economies.

Unemployment incubated successful gangs specializing in various crimes that in the 80s were combined with the consumption of marijuana trafficked by Paraguayan dealers.

And since the late 1990s with that of cocaine provided by international drug traffickers or by local entrepreneurs who bring it into the country in the most economical form of “base paste” distilled in “kitchens” using precursors provided by the national industry.

The crucial services that trigger the payment of these fees consist of placing duly sealed bricks of cocaine in plastic bags wrapped in magnetic nets attached to the keels of ships.

After avoiding port controls, they are loaded to be returned to the water before reaching their European destinations.

However, the most dynamic method used by the Mexicans and their Argentine partners is to transport them using fast sports boats that sail behind the ships until they reach the islands near the port where, in a matter of minutes, they can load several tons.

Over the years, all decent residents of those “territories” became hostages and their merchants taxpayers forced to pay drug dealers “protection” from other rival gangs.

Their exorbitant fortunes were also nourished by billing coverage to "base paste" traffickers from the North along Route 9 bound for the AMBA and from there to the rest of the country.

The drug traffickers imported to Rosario their culture of musical styles such as cumbia, reggaeton, trap, gold chains, high-end boots, soccer caps;

and 4x4 trucks, “prepared” cars with powerful musical equipment and high displacement motorcycles of the “capitos”.

They dazzle parents and children who aspire to continue their careers willing to receive salaries higher than those of any legal job.

Also to their police relatives who act as double agents and guarantee the monopoly of each territory.

The work begins from childhood through confinement in an invention from Rosario: the "bunkers", material constructions equipped with a mailbox through which customers pass the money that the underage soldier repays with packets of cocaine, marijuana or pako.

Destroyed by the spectacular operation deployed by federal forces in 2014, they have been replaced by delivery motorcycles.

The picture is completed with the sanctuaries to pagan devotions such as San La Muerte and Gauchito Gil who are entrusted to carry out their "work".

Historian.

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