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The opiate that was mixed with cocaine is 10,000 times stronger than morphine and 100 times stronger than fentanyl.
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The drug circulated through the poor neighborhoods on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, where small gangs of drug traffickers proliferate.
The word “carfentanilo” disconcerted by these hours in Argentina. It hardly hides the effects of this substance: its potency is such that it is used to sedate elephants, rhinos or other large animals. Because it is an opiate 10,000 times stronger than morphine and 100 times stronger than fentanillo, the synthetic narcotic from which it derives, its use is strictly prohibited for people. This country has just made its tragic exception. The adulterated cocaine that killed 24 people and seriously intoxicated another 84 in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, contained nothing less than that fatal component. This was verified by the experts of the Scientific Police of the Police of the Province of Buenos Aires. The finding adds a new layer of horror to a social drama in which it intertwines the poverty with the growth of drug trafficking.
Carlos Damin, head of Toxicology at the Fernández Hospital in the city of Buenos Aires, assured the newspaper for his part The nation that this derivative of the poppy or opium poppy “is not used” in Argentina and “might have been entered illegally”, in its “finished form”, as a narcotic, to be “tested” in the street drug market. Carfentanil, they added, circulates in Canada, the United States and Mexico as a cutting substance for heroin and fentanyl, “so someone might probably have brought it in small amounts.” It is usually recorded that through the provinces of northern Argentina, bordering Bolivia and Paraguay, the 70% of illicit substances.
The episodes in the so-called Puerta 8, in the town of Tres de Febrero, bordering the capital, highlighted the extent to which the so-called drug dealer, as the small business is known, has expanded through the neighborhoods hardest hit by an economic crisis of long standing
Whatever poison they added to the poison, the only reality is that drug trafficking was consecrated in 2014 and from then on it began stages of verification, expansion and strengthening“said sociologist Laura Etcharren, author of the book Waiting for Las Maras, embryonic state in Argentina. “The underground matrix of drug trafficking in Argentina remains intact. The reactive jobs, inevitably flawed over time, enable new criminal lines and new markets. The network from above is increasingly complex. And the one from below (narcomenudeo) is strengthened. The only thing that is clear is that there are three lines that have been advancing for some time in Argentina in relation to synthesis and opiates. Mexican. Chinese and Afghan“added the specialist.
Whatever the poison they added to the poison, and whatever the veil chosen for the business and the uniformed networks of connivance, the only reality is that drug trafficking was consecrated in 2014 and from there began stages of verification, expansion and strengthening.
— Laura Etcharren (@etcharrenlau) February 10, 2022
growth in cities
A survey by the Argentine Catholic University (UCA) carried out in more than 5,680 representative homes confirms the “significant increase” in drug trafficking as well as in the consumption practices of “psychoactive substances.” The 23% of households in “Urban Argentina” reported the presence of drug sales or trafficking in a block, neighborhood or neighborhood in which it is located.
35.7% % of households in the six most densely populated regions of the main Argentine province, where 44.3% of the population resides, are below the poverty line. The central region of Argentina, made up of the capital and the provinces of Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, Córdoba, and Entre Ríos, concentrate 65% of drug-related violence.
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Until the episodes of Gate 8 broke out, the mournful news related to drug trafficking was concentrated in Rosario, the hometown of Leo Messi, regarding 400 kilometers from the capital. There, the territorial dispute between factions causes the constant deaths of young people and a growing conflict. The gangs constantly threaten prosecutors, judges and police officers, many of them involved in the business network, according to the media.
Joaquín Aquino, a Paraguayan citizen known as the country, is the main detainee in the case of adulterated cocaine. According to the local press, when questioned by federal judge Juan Manuel Culotta, he said that the 5,000,000 doses that the Buenos Aires police seized did not belong to him. The drug wasplanted” by security forces when they raided his house in the town of José C. Paz. Aquino had been a fugitive from Justice since mid-2020. They had previously arrested him with 1,500 doses of cocaine.
