It was an aerial image, in black and white, with a mourning ribbon wrapping the Flag Monument.
It said
“We Ask for Peace,”
along with an emoji of hands together, praying.
World champion soccer player Ángel Di María uploaded the post this Monday to his Instagram account.
Four hours later, he deleted it.
It is a metaphor for the city of Che Guevara, Olmedo, Fito Páez, Fontanarrosa, Messi and the drug drama.
Enter and exit.
Appears and disappears.
We see it and lose sight of it again.
In the real agenda of Argentine politics, in the true attention of power, Rosario
was always far away.
The governments that pass run with cameras and gendarmes (the cameras are to make sure that we see the gendarmes), and announce that now yes, that the drug traffickers are trembling and things are in order.
But
drug traffickers never tremble
.
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Gisela Scaglia, the vice governor of Santa Fe, spoke about the delicate narco-terrorist situation that exists in Rosario.
They have businesses to take care of.
From them and their allies who know how to float in an ocean of black bills to launder in a legal circuit that has everything right there, at our fingertips:
port, grains, real estate boom, casinos and professional football.
Three months ago, the former administrator of the port of Rosario, Gustavo Shanahan - a well-known businessman in the city - was sentenced to 7 years in prison for providing black dollars to drug traffickers every time they had to replace drugs.
The Peruvian who brought cocaine to supply local gangs - he himself tells
Clarín
in the documentary
Why does Rosario bleed?
- His name is Julio Rodríguez Granthon and he was convicted along with the administrator of the Port.
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It gives more freedom to federal forces to shoot in case of danger.
The drug dealer and the businessman, together.
The construction boom in Rosario raises towers facing the Paraná as if it were Manhattan's East River.
Four million square meters
were built in the city in 10 years
.
In that same period there were
more than 2,000 deaths
and
500 police officers exonerated
for covering up drug traffickers.
A protest by taxi drivers in Santa Fe, last week, for the murder of two drivers to be used as "messenger corpses" in Rosario.
95% percent of the attacks occur in 12% of the city's territory, but there is something new in the Rosario violence, which is
Argentine drug violence
, like that in the states of Sinaloa or Quintana Roo are drug violence. Mexican.
Talking about drug traffickers and saying that security is a provincial issue is
a serious approach error
that Kirchnerism made and Milei repeated this Tuesday during a TV interview.
Drug violence - a federal crime - is
a national issue,
as Eduardo van der Kooy wrote in this newspaper.
The rest smells like wanting to open up.
To put cold distance.
All the governors took advantage of the setback to highlight that detail in a joint statement and play both sides: show solidarity with the Santa Fe president and expose Milei, with whom they fight every day for funds.
What is new in Rosario violence is the widespread use of
corpses as messages
for political power and for all of us.
Victims who
have nothing to do with anything
.
Ordinary people killed for no reason.
Worse than
cold blood
(the crimes immortalized by Capote occurred during the robbery of a family home).
Murders
without a personal motive
committed by hitmen who know nothing about their victims.
They neither know them nor hate them.
They kill them to terrify us.
It is
a definitive turning point
.
The police remove the body of a man murdered in the vicinity of the Casino City Center in Rosario, in 2020. Photo: JUAN JOSE GARCIA
There are other causes where professional politicians appear at the crossroads of drugs and gambling.
Provincial senator Armando Traferri (PJ) is serving his fifth legislative term, designated by a repentant former prosecutor as the one who protects illegal gambling.
And for a leading drug trafficker like someone who protects them:
“Pay
attention
to Traferri and he won't bother you anymore,” a
dealer
explained
to Guille Cantero, leader of Los Monos, by phone.
Traferri denies the accusations and has now asked that his privileges to appear to testify be removed.
Before he asked
the prosecutors who accuse him to leave
.
Traferri was an ally of former governor Perotti, they distanced themselves when Perotti refused to give him the ministries of Security and Justice, and then he played internally with Agustín Rossi when he left Defense to try to be a senator.
Traferri is still stomping hard inside PJ Santa Fe.
The case in which they are investigating him began with the execution of a man at the City Center casino - where Messi went to celebrate the Qatar world title - at the hands of Los Monos.
Gambling and drug trafficking
.
In the
messenger corpses
that scare us now there is a chilling sign: the taxi drivers were murdered with bullets that had the acronym
PSF
(Santa Fe Police)
printed on them .
While the Government looks for a way to pull one of the thousand threads of the drug plot in Rosario - any action that goes beyond the
shell level
will be useful - the hitmen kill innocents
with State bullets.
See also
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The suspicion of the drug consortium behind the violence in Rosario and the suspicions about the Police
See also
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Harsh statement from the Church about the situation in Rosario: "Drugs are killing us"