Argentina continues to be shocked by the dead and injured victims of adulterated cocaine in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. Until this Monday there were 26 deceased. The Argentine newspaper Clarín published a report in which it interviewed officials specialized in drug trafficking and issued a warning: this situation could happen again.
“Of course it can happen again Why wouldn’t it happen again? If the drug traffickers who are detained should already have been replaced, if there is no will to fight them seriously. Or do you think they’re not selling drugs at Gate 8 now?” one of the officials told the newspaper.
The question was put to another person involved in drug trafficking work and the answer was similar: “Can it happen again? Of course. This has surely already happened, on a smaller scale, and we didn’t even know about it. What could have happened now? That day Argentina was playing, probably many kids said ‘we are going to watch the game, we are going to buy falopa’, and that is why it was massive“.
Below is an extract from the Argentine media note:
business and consumption
According to official data, from a Sedronar survey, drug use more than doubled between 2010 and 2019. In the first case, 3.6% of the population consulted admitted to consuming narcotics and in almost a decade it rose to 8.3 %.
The problem cuts across all social classes. Although initially there was talk of adulterated cocaine, the deaths linked to this case were from marginal sectors. “They were cartoneros or kids who worked in garbage collection. If they don’t have money, they go out to riot. We don’t even know what drug it was. We have devices to compare, that quickly tell us if it’s cocaine or paco or something known, and we still don’t know. But for the price, 300 or 500 pesos a packet, it can’t be cocaine,” another person declared.
And he added data from the business: “The cocaine that is sold here is from Peru and Bolivia. It is not from Colombia, which goes to the United States. And like any business, in which everyone seeks to maximize profits, what comes here in general it’s bad quality. A gram of cocaine in the United States costs 100 dollars, in Germany more than 80 euros. What can an envelope of 300 pesos have, a little more than a dollar?
The hypotheses of the case
The three sources consulted ruled out the idea of a drug war, with a deliberate adulteration to harm a gang. “That’s nonsense. Can you imagine the man from Noble Repulgue poisoning the empanadas of another business? He is also harmed, because people begin to doubt all the empanadas.”. Here, it is most likely that they wanted to try a new product and it went wrong,” argues one of the officials.
Another contributed to the theory: “And when it comes to fentanyl, it’s not the fentanyl from the laboratories, expensive. It must have been something homemade, which they tried and it went wrong. We have to be thankful that more people have not died. Why not Hundreds died? Because God is from Buenos Aires.” One piece of information contributes to this hypothesis: until this Monday, they had not detected fentanyl – an opioid much more powerful than morphine – in any analysis.
In private, the three sources agreed that the problem of drug trafficking and consumption has been growing for years, without distinction of crack or internal: “Berni’s anger with Aníbal is because he considered what he did a political evil, of chicaning him in public in the middle of the problem. But not because he didn’t give him resources or didn’t help him, because it’s not even known if Hannibal has those resources.”
Today Berni has a political terminal in Governor Axel Kicillof. She was one of those who became involved in the issue, although from a distance, since she was (and is) with President Alberto Fernández on tour abroad. He was also closely followed by Carlos Bianco, Kicillof’s former chief of staff and confidant; and the Minister of Health, Nicolás Kreplak, indicates Clarín.
– And Cristina, who was in charge of the Executive and Berni always considered her his boss? Clarín consulted.
– With Berni, at least, no. They are fighting to the death, replied one of the sources.
Nor was there much of a stir in other sectors of the Rosada, according to what a leader who passes through those corridors these days told this newspaper. “There they were worried about Máximo’s resignation,” he replied.
Argentina continues to be shocked by the dead and injured victims of adulterated cocaine in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. Until this Monday there were 26 deceased. The Argentine newspaper Clarín published a report in which it interviewed officials specialized in drug trafficking and issued a warning: this situation could happen again.
“Of course it can happen again Why wouldn’t it happen again? If the drug traffickers who are detained should already have been replaced, if there is no will to fight them seriously. Or do you think they’re not selling drugs at Gate 8 now?” one of the officials told the newspaper.
The question was put to another person involved in drug trafficking work and the answer was similar: “Can it happen again? Of course. This has surely already happened, on a smaller scale, and we didn’t even know about it. What could have happened now? That day Argentina was playing, probably many kids said ‘we are going to watch the game, we are going to buy falopa’, and that is why it was massive“.
Below is an extract from the Argentine media note:
business and consumption
According to official data, from a Sedronar survey, drug use more than doubled between 2010 and 2019. In the first case, 3.6% of the population consulted admitted to consuming narcotics and in almost a decade it rose to 8.3 %.
The problem cuts across all social classes. Although initially there was talk of adulterated cocaine, the deaths linked to this case were from marginal sectors. “They were cartoneros or kids who worked in garbage collection. If they don’t have money, they go out to riot. We don’t even know what drug it was. We have devices to compare, that quickly tell us if it’s cocaine or paco or something known, and we still don’t know. But for the price, 300 or 500 pesos a packet, it can’t be cocaine,” another person declared.
And he added data from the business: “The cocaine that is sold here is from Peru and Bolivia. It is not from Colombia, which goes to the United States. And like any business, in which everyone seeks to maximize profits, what comes here in general it’s bad quality. A gram of cocaine in the United States costs 100 dollars, in Germany more than 80 euros. What can an envelope of 300 pesos have, a little more than a dollar?
The hypotheses of the case
The three sources consulted ruled out the idea of a drug war, with a deliberate adulteration to harm a gang. “That’s nonsense. Can you imagine the man from Noble Repulgue poisoning the empanadas of another business? He is also harmed, because people begin to doubt all the empanadas.”. Here, it is most likely that they wanted to try a new product and it went wrong,” argues one of the officials.
Another contributed to the theory: “And when it comes to fentanyl, it’s not the fentanyl from the laboratories, expensive. It must have been something homemade, which they tried and it went wrong. We have to be thankful that more people have not died. Why not Hundreds died? Because God is from Buenos Aires.” One piece of information contributes to this hypothesis: until this Monday, they had not detected fentanyl – an opioid much more powerful than morphine – in any analysis.
In private, the three sources agreed that the problem of drug trafficking and consumption has been growing for years, without distinction of crack or internal: “Berni’s anger with Aníbal is because he considered what he did a political evil, of chicaning him in public in the middle of the problem. But not because he didn’t give him resources or didn’t help him, because it’s not even known if Hannibal has those resources.”
Today Berni has a political terminal in Governor Axel Kicillof. She was one of those who became involved in the issue, although from a distance, since she was (and is) with President Alberto Fernández on tour abroad. He was also closely followed by Carlos Bianco, Kicillof’s former chief of staff and confidant; and the Minister of Health, Nicolás Kreplak, indicates Clarín.
– And Cristina, who was in charge of the Executive and Berni always considered her his boss? Clarín consulted.
– With Berni, at least, no. They are fighting to the death, replied one of the sources.
Nor was there much of a stir in other sectors of the Rosada, according to what a leader who passes through those corridors these days told this newspaper. “There they were worried about Máximo’s resignation,” he replied.
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