Monica Sosa fell, the woman who sought to fend off from her family control of Uruguay's main crime gang

Monica Sosa He was released from prison in January after serving a six-month jail sentence for usurpation and seemed to want to start a new life. She was considered the head of The chingas, a criminal group that took control of a territory at an unprecedented level in Uruguay, which included steal, occupy homes, extort stores, distribute drugs, forbid children to go to school. And kill, of course.

One of the first things she did when she regained her freedom was to surrender to the liberated leadership to be included in the former labor jail. He said that he could work in cleaning, cooking or looking after the elderly. He lived in a house outside his former area of ​​influence, but not too far away. The authorities suspect that everything was a facade.

Police this week carried out an operation in Los Palomares de Casavalle, a neighborhood just 12 minutes from the presidential residence, as part of a joint investigation by the prosecutor's office of homicide and narcotics. The case began after two men were shot dead on April 29th. One of them died and the other survived despite 10 shots. Both were cousins ​​of Sosawho was arrested with other members of the family during the raid.

Investigators suspect that the former leader of Chingas, who is being investigated by drug trafficking and not by homicides, he was trying to rearm his organizationeven if it meant putting pressure on their loved ones and killing them if they refused to participate, they said Infobae sources related to the case.

But this time, it did not work. There is "a pause in omerta and the pact of silence"in the organization and they denounced it, they evaluate to the government." This is the desperate attempt of a criminal band that has been decimated and which leads to today. they are exterminated between parents"

Casavalle amaneció was surrounded on 20 December 2017. The entrances and exits of the neighborhood were controlled by police pickets who requested documents from each person. Operation Mirador mobilized 600 soldiers to develop 68 raids. It was the beginning of the end of Los Chingas.

A few months earlier, the Chingas had won a confrontation with their neighborhood rival, the Camala group, and with absolute control of the area. Once the road cleared, the organization began operating with impunity that the authorities had never seen before. Under threat and violence, they expelled Casavalle's neighbors, occupied their homes, sold them or rented them to others, used them as drug jails and weapons depots. They took about 60 homes and evicted more than 200 people in just two months.

The government of Tabaré Vázquez felt that he was facing one of the security situations "more delicate", reported the Uruguayan weekly Research. Attorney General Jorge Díaz told the media that Los Chingas's criminal behavior was "not published in Uruguay"

After Operation Mirador, the first of several attempts by the government to dismantle criminal gangs, several arrests have taken place. Mónica Sosa was jailed for "cooperating morally" with the crime of usurpation of housing, according to the prosecutor Enrique Rodríguez in his opinion. He left outside a modest house, similar to that of his neighbors, but with the best comfort: jacuzzi, plasmas, air conditioners.

It was her second lawsuit, before she was accused of extortion.

Sosa was released on January 12 and, according to the researchers, began a underground work to regain control of the neighborhood. During this process, she began to pressure her family members to work with her, which included threats that her children, often from their childhood, became part of her family. a new network of drug traffickers. I wanted badbadins and personal security.

The situation quickly became untenable. Derived in the confrontation that ended with one of his dead cousins ​​and the other full of bullets. And the parents started to blame each other.

Police arrested Sosa on Tuesday and took with her his 18-year-old daughter-in-law, her 39-year-old consuegra and the son-in-law of her 24-year-old son-in-law.

While Narcotics Prosecutor Monica Ferrero was receiving statements Wednesday for a drug-related crime, Sosa burst into tears. "It's a manipulative, cold and ruthless personality"he badured Infobae one of those who have most investigated Los Chingas.

On the basis of the statements collected, the police suspect that he is the intellectual author of the crime of his cousin, although the material author is another person. For the time being, the prosecutor will present in the afternoon today the charges brought against Sosa for the crime of private violence and not for homicide.