Comodoro, Caleta Olivia and Río Grande on the Dominican Highway

Hairdressers and car washes are the most popular items for migrants from the Dominican Republic who have moved to the south of the country to serve as a front for their businesses. However, for more than ten years now, several citizens of the Caribbean country settled in Patagonia have been involved in cases of drug trafficking or human trafficking and their participation is becoming more and more frequent.

According to the portal Infobae, there would have been resounding cases. In September of last year, for example, the federal police dissolved, after nine months of investigation, the "Banda del Caribe" composed of four Dominicans and one Colombian who had operated in Chubut and in Santa Cruz with six raids to Comodoro Rivadavia, including the terminal. of the proceedings and the three other proceedings ordered by Judge Eva Parcio de Chubut, Caleta Olivia: they found nearly seven kilos of cocaine in a suitcase from the federal capital, arrived in Comodoro Rivadavia. All detainees fell into the terminal with their hands in the cargo.

There were interesting characters in the "Banda del Caribe", such as "El Mutante", of Dominican origin, believed to be in charge of distribution. An internal war was suspected in the group: the house of "Mutant" had been shot, perhaps a warning.

ROADS

The drug that enters Patagonia, from Rio Negro to the end of the world, has several alternatives to reach its destination. But the suppliers are generally the same: the drug traffickers operating in the porteño villas.

Federal investigations concluded by Infobae indicated that organizations operating in the south of the country were provided with the substance that traffickers accumulate in stock, both in villa 1-11-14 of Bajo Flores and in different southern neighborhoods. Monserrat, San Telmo or Barracas.

An alleged Dominican narco penetrated with a particular force in the Constitution. Ardinson Amaury Aquino, "El Chibolo", had arrived in Argentina around 2005, had established a residential address on Pasco Street in San Cristóbal, was paying taxes and had even received a family allowance from ANSES. In August 2017, "Chibolo" was arrested by the municipal police in a house in Avellaneda: they found 40 kilos of cocaine.

They basically accused him of being one of the most powerful suppliers in Constitución's reseller market. It was suspected that "Chibolo" – who often appeared in the conversations of a gang of drug traffickers of different nationalities prosecuted by Judge Ariel Lijo in 2014, including Colombians and Venezuelans – was behind a Dominican hairdresser clbadic in the neighborhood where they were divided. bags of cocaine that came into the hands of transbadual women who prostituted themselves in the area.

Back in Patagonia, in the case of Tierra del Fuego, "there are different alternatives to arrive, there is the land route which is complicated because you have to cross Chile, which means facing four border checks, by aerial, which is the preferred method for transporting drugs, and shipping that is almost zero because the journeys that arrive are usually from Europe or ships leaving from here, "says a source from Provincial Attorney's Office.

The mule system is basic for the drug to reach the south. Gangs choose to hire people to hide cocaine in their clothes or luggage because it is very difficult to detect unless investigators know in advance that the mullet exists. "There are thousands of people every day at airports, making it virtually impossible to control by pbadenger, but in recent years, more comprehensive control has been put in place for pbadengers connecting Aeroparque to the airport. Rio Grande. " added the federal investigator.

The microphones also serve. On May 9, 2016, in the Arroyo Verde district of Chubut, a tranny and hairdresser herself, a hairdresser, from Santo Domingo, fell with three and a half kilos of cocaine when an anti-drug dog felt her bag on a business laptop. Don Otto towards Comodoro Rivadavia. He stated that the bag was not his, that he was "a countryman" that he had met in a bar of Parque Patricios, who would pay him 10,000 pesos there. gave it to "another compatriot" to Caleta Olivia. His mobile phone was seized and they were evaluated. A contact had written to him: "I'm waiting for the 3 K's, what happened, tell me".

The transgender woman was sentenced on April 13, 2018 to five years in prison by the federal court of Comodoro Rivadavia. To convict him, they used their birth name. In the middle of this month, the court denied him the benefit of the separation to return to his country in accordance with the law, which was granted to him by Capos as Alionzo "Ruti" Mariños and ordered to deduct the penalty. fine of two thousand pesos. penitentiary that had marked him in his sorrow.

QUESTION OF GANANCE

For Dominican traffickers operating in the south, there are not large amounts of narcotics: on a flight, a person can not carry more than a kilo or two, buses offer more capacity.

The real deal is in the price: a gram of cocaine in Ushuaia or Rio Grande can be sold between 800 and 1000 pesos, a considerable difference from the 300 to 500 proposed in different parts of the capital. A source who knows the mechanics well: the kilo which, in Buenos Aires, can be bought for ten thousand dollars wholesale, is sold at 15 thousand dollars in the streets of Patagonia, with a considerable extension thereafter.

For several years, a community of Dominicans in Rio Grande has developed over the past three years. In fact, an itinerant consulate of the Embbady of the Dominican Republic was installed in the city last year.

In court cases, Dominicans also appear more diligently. "It's not big groups but families: parents, children, cousins ​​who are starting to build relationships with the company, and lately we have also started to see clashes between Dominican gangs, for the sake of Unpaid money or a favor that has not been made, "explained a judicial source.

On November 16, two young men aged 20 and 21 were attacked with bullets by three men driving a car. Both survived but they ruled the attack as a settling of scores by the neighbors.

When traveling from Buenos Aires to Tierra del Fuego, these groups bring not only mules, but also women to practice prostitution. "They travel for a month, then they come back and continue to shoot, they are divided as follows: men are dedicated to drugs and women are used to trafficking people," said a researcher at Infobae. For their businesses, Dominicans who engage in criminal activities mainly use car washes and hairdressers as El Chibolo would do in the field of the Constitution, for example.

Night bars were also used, such as the case of Lucy Alberca Campos, a 34-year-old Peruvian citizen who was arrested in 2012 and accused of leading a gang of narcanas made up of Dominicans and Argentines working in Ushuaia. who also engaged in human trafficking. . At the time of his arrest, he had seven million pesos. In 2016, he was sentenced to three years in prison for the crime of trafficking and exploitation of human beings.

However, in August 2018, Lucy Campos received an abbreviated sentence for the unification of two four-year prison sentences (drug trafficking and exploitation of persons).