Unveiling the Political Repercussions: The Impact of a Fanged Monkey Flag on Rosario’s Security Crisis

2023-06-29 07:00:00

A fanged, defiant monkey with a pair of glasses. On one side a rabid chicken, and on the other side a bull. The image of the comic displayed on a huge flag measuring 40 meters by 40 meters on the upper visor of the Newell’s grandstand last Saturday now had an unexpected political repercussion in the Santa Fe Legislature.

The regular Thursday session of the Chamber of Deputies was altered when it was decided to modify the agenda to approve some issues, including a project that, although it came out unanimously, without negative votes or abstentions, left little flavor and for many legislators was insufficient.

This is the half sanction that the 33 deputies present gave to a project that provides for the installation of mobile phone signal inhibitors and wireless internet in provincial penitentiary units. A more severe initiative, promoted by the deputy Nicolás Mayoraz, also proposed establishing sanctions.

But the main course was the previous debate, where deputy Carlos del Frade, exposed before the plenary session of the Chamber some details of a reality that, although it is an open secret in the province, this time it acquired concrete dimensions given the serious situation of insecurity that Rosario is going through.

For the legislator, inhibitors in prisons is a necessary and common sense measure, but he warned that the main problem is not what happens inside prisons, but what happens outside.

He considered that the flag displayed on Saturday the 24th on the Newell’s field was “a phenomenal demonstration of the business marketing operation of the Los Monos drug-police organization.”

The issue was discussed in the Chamber of Deputies of Santa Fe

Being seen worldwide, with this exhibition, Rosario’s most famous drug gang once once more generated international public attention, similar to what had occurred when they attacked the supermarket belonging to Lionel Messi’s in-laws.

“The marketing strategy was so good that the t-shirts were already being sold the next day,” highlighted Del Frade, who made a particular analysis of the legend that revealed the flag.

He also argued that this flag ridicules all the claims made regarding safety on soccer fields. “The sports stadiums -he said- belong to the drug-police gangs that disguise themselves as barras bravas”.

He specified that this is something that historically and for years has happened in the four big clubs in the province, Central, Newell’s, Colón and Unión, where the stadiums are managed by the bars, which today are narco-police gangs.

Del Frade opined before the eyes of the other deputies that “the small soccer field shows how the big field of reality works. On the small soccer field there are de facto governments that are the ones that use these narco-police gangs and impose the rules of fire, in the stands and outside the stands.”

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For the legislator, the flag that was displayed on Saturday was “a synthesis of a part of the Los Monos bar”, which he defined as “a business, murderous, cowardly gang, because today they are threatening children in schools , which must necessarily be confronted and insulted from politics so that the neighbors do not feel so alone”.

The legislator from Santa Fe also made a particular reading of the image displayed on the flag. “First of all there was a monkey with fangs, defiant, and a pair of glasses, which is the clear image of Guille Cantero, the most murderous of all, the darkest. Next to him was a chicken, also rabid, because of the Vinardi chicken, who is imprisoned in a federal prison, and on the other side was a bull, which some recognized as the synthesis of the Escobar bull. But it also refers to another bull that Los Monos had, which is the Martinotti bull, which a few years ago escaped from the Rosario police headquarters, simply by walking through the door.”

Ariel “Guille” Cantero (Adrián Escandar)

Del Frade explained that “those who are imprisoned today like Vinardi or Cantero or Toro Escobar, are in federal prisons, where – he denounced – they have the facility to do anything.”

In this context, he recalled that on March 10, “the other great murderer of the narco business, Esteban Lindor Alvarado, was going to escape by helicopter from Ezeiza prison unit 3, and he did not escape because the one who was driving the helicopter began to respond today to a Brazilian narco group that is managing the drug that circulates through the Paraná river”.

According to the complaint made in the Chamber of Deputies, the flag displayed at Maxi Rodrgíguez’s farewell “had entered a while ago.”

For Del Frade “it is ridiculous to hear police chiefs say that the responsibility lay with the private security system that had organized the party in a format very similar to a great national rock show.”

“As if we hadn’t known for years that this sector of the popular NOB responds to what had been built since the time of the presidency of Eduardo J. López and that Roberto Pimpi Camino was head of the bar.”

At this point he recalled that the head of the bar at the time was killed on the day that the president of the club, his partner and friend, had a birthday, March 19, 2010, as a kind of birthday present.

This problem is not exclusive to Newell’s. According to Del Frade, on the Rosario Central side there is the Pillines bar, “which from 2012 onwards has become someone who manages the stands from inside the field, and also manages the street, as one of the four groups most important drug traffickers that the city of Rosario has”.

“What happened the other day was not that they took the field by storm. The field belongs to them, as many neighborhoods belong to them at certain times as zones released to these de facto governments that have been imposed in Rosario for at least 15 years ”, he completed.

For these reasons, the provincial deputy considers that the Los Monos flag on the NOB field “was not a provocation, but the display of a property title. What they marked – he considered – was this belongs to us, that’s why we are from the cartel, -in the first person of the plural- beyond everything ”.

According to Del Frade, on the Rosario Central side there is the Pillines bar, “which from 2012 onwards has become someone who manages the stands from inside the field, and also manages the street, as one of the four groups most important drug traffickers in the city of Rosario” (Getty)

“The problem with what happens in prisons is that there are a lot of people outside who work for the one who is inside. So the solution, beyond the inhibitors, is how we recover the neighborhoods by eliminating those narco-police gangs that apply a de facto government in Rosario”.

For the deputy from Rosario, “this is not disputed with a Gendarmerie tank, but with a concrete decision to recover the neighborhoods from politics.”

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He also urged to see who benefits from everything that happened. “Where would the money from the huge flag end up, where does the money harvested from the sale of t-shirts go. To the Las Flores neighborhood? To Junction Barns? No. That is washed in the center of the city, ”she answered herself.

He also added another controversial fact. “How many times do we hear the investigations regarding the passes of Central and Newell’s players. There are judicial documents – he affirmed – of what Angel Di María’s pass meant, for example, it was paid for in Portugal and there seven Central leaders went to look for what later ended up in the hands of Pillín Bracamonte and his friends.

“What happened to Buonanotte’s money? A treacherous, flagrant money laundering operation of 6 million euros that nobody knows where they ended up. And how many complaints from suppliers of the provincial State have been boxed where they said they were squeezed by the bars of the Rosario teams to continue being suppliers of the provincial State.

“The inhibitors are very important, but the big problem is how we recover political control of the neighborhoods abroad to build democratic security. The flag is marking a property title not only on the small soccer field, but on the big field of reality, ”he concluded.

Congressman Nicolás Mayoras had proposed a bill prohibiting the use of cell phones in prisons almost three years ago. “It cannot be -he said then- this phenomenon of using prisons as coworking, as a center for the commission of crimes”, although he admitted that “this is not a reality that excludes Argentina or Santa Fe, but rather occurs throughout the world” .

Pillín Bracamonte (elciudadanoweb)

“Organized crime – he recalled in the session – manages to continue committing crimes from jail. In Rosario there is a specific prosecutor for shootings, because 90% of the shootings in Rosario are organized from the prisons,” he revealed.

For the deputy, “crime has a new characteristic, which is that even under the care of the State, persons deprived of their liberty manage to continue committing crimes and even to do them with greater violence, because they appear to maintain power within the territory of the gangs and the capture of new followers”.

He explained that “he had no way to explain that a law had not been enacted before to prohibit the use of cell phones.” He recalled that in the legal discussion it was argued that there was a national law to which Santa Fe had already adhered, and that prohibits the use of cell phones and the installation of inhibitors. Later the parliamentary status of that law fell and that is why this project might now be approved, even though it is far from what was intended.

Mayoraz criticized the current government of Omar Perotti because “it spent four years processing files for the installation of inhibitors that never materialized. They were all promises. Even the scanners, which only now are the first ones seeing. But I hope that this remains as a commitment for the next government of Santa Fe ”, he wished.

He insisted that “we need a legal regime that fills the gap that Santa Fe legislation has today. Because even adhering to national law, there is no penalty regime for those who use cell phones. In prison, the prisoners’ cell phones are searched and taken away, but that later ends in nothing and they return to the same circle and it is never solved.”

The project with which he said he is going to insist seeks to establish a severe sanctioning regime in addition to the prohibition. “The electronic and technical device of jammers is a tool, but it is not the only one.”

He clarified that this “does not violate any human rights regulations, since it strictly complies with Mandela’s rules, established by the United Nations for persons deprived of their liberty. This right to communication of prisoners can be harmonized and the use of cell phones severely prohibited, so that cities are safer, and so that prisoners are the ones who are locked up and not good people.

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