Dominicans who control the new route of cocaine and prostitution in Patagonia

Hairstylists and car washes are the most popular articles by migrants from the Dominican Republic who settled in the south of the country as a front for their businesses. However, for more than ten years, several citizens of the Caribbean country settled in Patagonia have been involved in cases of drug trafficking or trafficking in human beings and their participation appears more and more frequently.

There was case of resonance. In September of last year, the federal police was dissolved after nine months of investigation for the "Caribbean group" integrated by four Dominicans and a Colombian who operated in Chubut and Santa Cruz with six raids at Comodoro Rivadavia, including the terminal microphones and three other procedures at Caleta Olivia, ordered by Judge Eva Chubut Eva Parcio of Seleme: they were found nearly seven kilos of cocaine in a suitcase arriving in Comodoro Rivadavia of the federal capital. 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, suspected of being in charge of distribution. An internal war was suspected in the group: the house of "Mutant" had been shot, perhaps a warning.

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 port cities.

Federal investigations to which he subscribed Infobae They point out that organizations active in the south of the country are provided with the substance that traffickers accumulate as a stock, both Villa 1-11-14 of Bajo Flores as in different southern districts such as Monserrat, San Telmo or Barracas.

An alleged Dominican narco penetrated with a particular force in the Constitution. Ardinson Amaury Aquino, "El Chibolo"Arrived in Argentina around 2005, he had established his home on Pasco Street in San Cristobal, paid taxes and 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 accused him, basically, of Be one of the most powerful providers in the Reseller Constitution market. It was suspected that "Chibolo" – who often appeared in the conversations of a gang of drug traffickers of different nationalities sued by Judge Ariel Lijo in 2014, including Colombians and Venezuelans – behind a clbadic Dominican hairdresser in the neighborhood where cocaine bags were split who came into the hands of trans women who worked as prostitutes in the area.

Back in Patagonia, in the case of Tierra del Fuego, "there are different alternatives to arrive, the land route which is complicated because you have to go through Chile what it means to face four border controls; by air, which is the preferred method for carrying the drug; and the sea is almost zero because the incoming trips usually come from Europe or ships leaving from here, "says a source from the provincial prosecutor's office.

The mule system is basic for the drug to reach the south. Groups choose hire people to hide cocaine in their clothes or luggage because it is very difficult to detect unless the investigators know in advance the existence of the mullet. "There are thousands of people every day at airports, making it virtually impossible for every pbadenger to review. However, in recent years, a more comprehensive check has been put in place for pbadengers traveling from Aeroparque to Rio Grande Airport.", added the federal investigator.

The microphones also serve. On May 9, 2016 in the region of Arroyo Verde in Chubut, a trans woman, a hairdresser according to her, from Santo Domingo, fell with three and a half pounds of cocaine when an anti-drug dog felt his bag on a mobile phone company Don Otto to Comodoro Rivadavia. He said that the bag was not his, that it was "a compatriot" whom he met in a bar at Parque Patricios, who pay him 10,000 pesos if I gave it to "another countryman" 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 trans woman sentenced on 13 April 2018 to five years in prison by the Federal Oral 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 removal to return to his country as provided by law and that was granted to capos as Alionzo "Ruti" Mariños and ordered that they deduct the two thousand pesos from the salary of the prison that had marked him in his sentence.

For Dominican traffickers operating in the southor these are large amounts of narcotics: on a flight, the maximum that a person can carry is a kilo and a half or two, the microphones offer more capacity.

The real deal is in the regular price: One gram of cocaine in Ushuaia or Rio Grande can be sold between 800 and 1,000 pesos, a considerable difference from 300 to 500 which is offered in different points of the capital. A source that knows the mechanics: the kilo that can be bought in Buenos Aires in ten thousand dollars in street value wholesale is sold 15 thousand in the streets of Patagonia, with considerable subsequent stretching.

For several years there is a community of Dominicans in Rio Grande which has increased over the last three years. In fact, last year he settled in the city an itinerant consulate of the Embbady of the Dominican Republic.

In court cases, Dominicans also appear more diligently. "These are not good bands but yes families: parents, children, cousins ​​who start to create links with the company. In recent times we have also started to see clashes between bands of Dominicans for money that has not been paid or a favor that has not been rendered, "said a judicial source.

November 16th of last year, Two young men aged 20 and 21 were attacked with bullets by three men who has been driving in a car. Both survived but they ruled the attack as a settling of scores by the neighbors.

In the trips from Buenos Aires to Tierra del Fuego, these groups do not They bring only mules, but they also do it with women to prostitute themselves. "They travel for a month, then they come back and continue to turn, they are divided as follows: men are dedicated to drugs and women are used for human trafficking"said a researcher 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, as in the case of Lucy Alberca Campos, a 34-year-old citizen of Peru Arrested in 2012, he was accused of leading a gang of narcos composed of Dominicans and Argentineans working in Ushuaia, who were also engaged in human trafficking. At the time of arrest He had seven million pesos instead. In 2016, she was sentenced to three years in prison on charges of trafficking and exploitation of human beings.

However, in August 2018, Lucy Campos received a brief sentence for the unification of both sentences (drug trafficking and exploitation of persons) of four years in prison.