In Rosario the air is still thin. Fear coexists in this city in Argentina, where the drug trade keeps its mouth open. In that city, the phrase most repeated by the criminal world is “I don’t fuck with the mafia**”.

At the end of October 2021, Clarín already reported that crime scene, of many that agitated Rosario, was marked by the warning next to bodies shot.

They cited the government sending more federal agents to Santa Fe after Ariel “Guille” Cantero was sentenced to 22 years in prison for the shootings against law enforcement targets.

Despite the commitment, three men were executed in two infamous events. Next to two corpses was the message: ‘I don’t fuck with the mafia**.

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Who is “Guille” Cantero?

After more than a year, the same outlet recalls that Ariel “Guille” Cantero is the leader of “Los Monos” and “felt confronted”. Justice had decided to send him to a federal prison in Resistencia, in Chaco.

On May 30, 2018, when the plan to transfer him to the new place of detention was being prepared, “he ordered his assassins to shoot at official offices and private homes associated with magistrates.” At that time, the modality of messages with threats was introduced.

The challenge, explains Clarín, “had to be made clear and messages on paper or cardboard started to spread. “Guille” Cantero “is serving a 96-year prison sentence due to the accumulation of sentences from eight trials,” explains Diario AR.

Two weeks ago, El Ciudadano published, two prosecutors requested that the head of the Rosario narco gang “Los Monos”, Ariel Máximo “Guille” Cantero, be “housed” in a sector of the Marcos Paz prison complex where he has no contact with other inmates for drug trafficking, phone communications are “strictly” monitored, and searches are conducted at his residence every two weeks to verify he has no cell phones.

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In October 2022, the message was for journalists and the poster was left on the edge of Telefe Rosario.

“To all Rosario media. Stop soiling and condemning the children with your tongue, we are going to kill journalists. I don’t fuck with the mob**. If not, caravan with El Noba”.

They wrote that in red letters. El Noba was a singer who died in a road accident last year, Río Negro reported.

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Other messages have circulated before: “He who warns, does not betray” and “Stop putting children in prison because it gets worse.”

Rivalry in Rosario and marking crimes with posters

The practice of leaving these scriptures was joined by another topic: Esteban Lindor Alvarado. They call him the “bloodiest narco” in Rosario.

“In few places in Argentina they mark crimes with posters. It is a peculiarity that began with the attack on the judges,” prosecutor Luis Schiappa reminded Pietra Clarín.

Using posters, they explain in the prosecution of the Rosario indictment, the gangs are trying to leave warnings, provoke terror, send a message to their rivals.

But, experts analyzed, “it is also commonly used to distract or hinder an investigation.”

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Messi, threatened in Rosario

At the beginning of March of this year 2023, a threat was launched against nothing more and nothing less than the family of Lionel Messi’s wife.

After shooting more than 10 times at the supermarket of Antonella Roccuzzo’s parents, they left the sign: “Messi, we are waiting for you. Javkin is a narco. He won’t take care of you.”

What is happening in Rosario is worrying: this is the third largest Argentine city in terms of population (1.3 million), says AFP. And in turn, it is the city with the highest crime rate, with 22 homicides per 100,000 residents, five times the national average.