“I was rich in money and poor in happiness”: former member of Pablo Escobar’s gang warns of what is happening in Argentina’s Rosario

Away from the murky world of drug trafficking, in which he spent 20 years in prison, an ex-narco of Pablo Escobar is reflective, pointing out, “Drug trafficking is the greatest evil on earth.”

Colombian Francisco Javier Cardona Ramírez, better known as “Jack” Cardonabecame an employee of the DEA.

From the other side of the crime, he analyzes it and takes the time to look at what is happening in Rosario, the Argentine city where Lionel Messi was born and today is rocked by drug trafficking.

For the former drug trafficker, “everything has become very bloodthirsty and devilish, full of greed. In my time they were not as harmful as they are now in Rosario, for example,” he said in Siempre Juntos, from Cadena 3 Rosario, reviewing Minuto Uno.

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What does he say about drug dealing these days?

Strengthened in faith, “Jota” Cardona shows herself: “Without Christ Jesus I would be nothing, I could not have left the murderous world of drug trafficking.”

I belonged to the Medellín Cartel with the devil Pablo Escobar Gaviria, he described.

This Colombian, who comes from the United States where he lives, remembered getting into the “drug trade” at the age of 18.

“I knew how to build pressure and fear, with my guns and people working for me. Obvio poisoned young people with cocaine. That was in 1978.”

He speaks, like few others, of voids and immaterials.

“I always wanted what the rich had without knowing I had to put in the effort and work for it. I wanted to get there easily, that was my big mistake. I was rich in money and poor in happiness,” he claimed.

I lost my life in prisons.

Message to Rosario, Argentina

In Rosario, Argentina, a supermarket belonging to Messi’s wife’s family was attacked with bullets in the early morning of March 2.

Messi, we are waiting for you, Javkin is a drug trafficker, he will not take care of you, the attackers wrote.

The following weekend, gunmen fired at a party, killing a 12-year-old boy. In response, an angry community ransacked several “narco” houses.

“Jota” Cardona warned the aforementioned Rosario media outlet: “If they don’t kill the small drug dealers, they won’t reach the big ones. 85% of the police are associated with drug trafficking, politicians even more.”

In the middle of the week, Cardona told Radio Rivadavia: “Rosario is about to become a narco town.”

“That is a diabolical situation that exists in Rosario. Since 2012 I warned that the city would become a monster”. He said they fought there over cocaine and with fear, terror, the groups want to dominate the people.

He lamented “the envy” they have of Messi. “If they let the monster grow, things will get out of hand.”