Three stories of mules: how the narcos lead them to swallow the drug

130. This was the total number of capsules that Carina could swallow, one kilo and 300 grams of cocaine in latex condoms. He knew that if one of these capsules exploded, his death was badured. Whenever the idea of ​​dying appeared to him he thought of his four children that he had left in Bolivia. With the eight hundred dollars who promised to take the cargo to Buenos Aires would be able to give some security to their children, at least for a while.

Carina She was afraid on a bus with 20 other containers between her clothes and her purse. September 16, 2017, a dog of the national gendarmerie He watched her, sniffed and barked at her face at a checkpoint in Santa Fe province.

Carina could not hide, she asked to be taken to the hospital before one of the 130 capsules that she had in her stomach exploded. The 42-year-old woman did not want to talk to the judges who sentenced her for fear that the people who contacted her would take revenge with their children. I have preferred spend a few years in prison and return to live with them in Bolivia.

Today, Carina spends her days at the women's penitentiary unit in Ezeiza where she faces a five-year sentence.

David he is now 39 years old. April 4, 2018 could not pbad a gendarmerie check in Salta while trying to enter a kilo and 175 grams of cocaine from Bolivia to Buenos Aires. Theor questioned and he was so nervous that he could not bear his lie.

During the interrogation conducted by the Justice of Salta, David said that he had been trained for four days at a hotel in downtown Santa Cruz de la Sierra.with two other mules, I did not know. They worked on the capacity of their stomachs and throats, had to be expanded, first with whole grapes, then pieces of carrots: it was texture, width.

When David managed to avoid tingling and began to swallow as wanted by the traffickers, came the latex packaging. In total, he transported 84 capsules David was one of the few inmates for this crime that he said as repentant and federal justice has granted him freedom.

Drug trafficking organizations have been using this methodology for years to transport narcotics without being discovered. Mainly because it's a "cheap" way to move cocaine and, in case the mullet is detected, it will not interrupt its operation because mainly he has no knowledge of his actions. There are very few cases in which the mullet can provide information to disrupt any of these bands.

A week ago, PFA arrested Víctor V.R in a villa in Lomas de Zamora., a 48 year old Bolivian citizen, wanted by the Spanish police with a red Interpol circular for an act committed in 2005.

Víctor, neighbor of Villa Centenario in Lomas de Zamora, I had tried to enter the Madrid International Airport on a flight from Ezeiza with a total of 900 grams of cocaine distributed in your body in 89 capsules. Thirteen years later, Victor fell.

After questioning him, Federal Judge Federico Villena he released him because he understood that his participation in the criminal gang reduced this lack of participation in Spain. Keeping him in jail made no sense.

There are countless groups dedicated to drug trafficking that make drug trafficking in the country. They are generally international and do not use a specific form for the transport of narcotics: Ingested mules, others that hide goods in the body or luggage, containers or mail.

One of the gangs in the country that used ingested mules to transport cocaine into the territory was that of the capo narco "Marcos" Estrada González, accused of historically controlling the villa 1-1-1-11-14 14 in Bajo Flores.

Albert Cruz Villanueva he was living in block 10 of 1-11-14 and in 2006 he was arrested in the lobby of Ezeiza Airport meanwhile two mules ingested with nearly two kilograms of cocaine in their bodies. The airport security police kept track of two women traveling from the TACA airline. When a PSA officer identified them and interviewed them the women became so nervous that they finally confessed and gave information to Cruz Villanueva.

The man had more than 80 entries and exits from the country, with different destinations like Colombia, Spain and Venezuela. Finished sentenced to six years in prison in September 2008Or Oral Court on Economic Criminal No. 2.