Global Courant 2023-05-21 20:14:25
One of the bosses of the Rosario drug gang had to be transferred from the Coronda prison to a hospital for surgery.
Ramón Machuca, better known as “Monchi Cantero”, one of the former leaders of the Rosario narco-criminal gang Los Monos, is under medical observation after being operated on urgently for peritonitis. “Machuca is in a delicate state,” confirmed the last medical report issued in the early hours of Sunday.
It all happened this Friday night, when a large-scale transfer security operation was set up: Machuca had to be taken from Coronda Penitentiary Unit 11 to the José María Cullen Hospital, in Santa Fe, after having suffered abdominal pain for all day
As published by the newspaper La Capital, after being received by the doctors on duty, an emergency surgical intervention was scheduled for appendicitis that took place this Saturday, which was successful.
The security operation had dozens of agents from different Santa Fe police forces, but Machuca’s care inside the hospital was in charge of the Special Penitentiary Operations Group (Goep).
Santa Fe: a strong GOE Group operative is in the vicinity where Cantero is hospitalized. Photo: Digital Air
At this time, a strong police operation guards the area of the hospital located on Av. Freyre, between Salta and Lisandro de la Torre.
According to the doctors who performed the surgery, “if the evolution of the operation continues favorably, Machuca will be discharged.
One of the former leaders of the Narco Rosario gang is imprisoned in Pavilion 26 of Piñero where he is serving his sentence, after being found guilty of being a leader and one of the leaders of the Los Monos association, dedicated to the commission of a range wide and varied types of crimes.
Who is Monchi?
Machuca, adoptive son of Ariel “El viejo” Cantero, founder of Los Monos, is one of the last leaders of the gang and has been in prison since he was captured in June 2016 in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Flores. He was considered by the Justice as one of the “brains” of the Narco criminal gang.
Santa Fe: “Monchi Cantero” was arrested in 2016. He is serving a 37-year prison sentence. Photo: The Coast
Monchi was wanted for two homicides that occurred on May 15 and another on May 28, 2013, which were part of a bloody trail in revenge for the murder of the leader of Los Monos, Claudio Pájaro Cantero, his foster brother, riddled with bullets. bullets in May 2013 at the exit of the Infinity Night bowling alley, in Villa Gobernador Gálvez. Machuca was a fugitive for three years.
In April 2018, the former Narco leader was sentenced to 37 years in prison for being the head of an illegal association and four homicide acts are charged as instigator.
