ROSARIO.- History repeats itself: Federal Justice always arrives late. It happened with Los Monos, with Esteban Alvarado, and now with Fernando “Narigón” Vázquez, a wholesale drug trafficker who operated like a ghost for years while the judicial system looked the other way. Only after provincial justice detained him for the homicide of the leader of Central’s barra brava, Pillín Bracamonte, did the federal court move and indict him. But the case file that condemns him dates back to 2014. Eight years of delay.
The Federal Court No. 3, headed by Carlos Vera Barros, ordered his indictment with pretrial detention for leading an organization dedicated to drug trafficking. A lien of just 4,680,000 pesos, frozen since 2018, shows the abandonment of the case. Vázquez, known as Narigón, was the cocaine supplier for several gangs, including Los Monos and Los Menores. His name appeared in wiretaps from 2017, when two teenagers died from designer drugs at an electronic music party. That’s where it all began.
The transcripts reveal the coded language of the business: “socks t-shirts,” “fish,” “torrejas.” In one conversation, a buyer complains about merchandise because “they can get it cheaper elsewhere.” Vázquez, alerted, orders the numbers to be changed. On June 9, 2018, the Federal Police had him in their sights: he was going to buy two kilos of cocaine from a supplier. But when he saw he was surrounded, he fled in a Volkswagen Fox, abandoned it, and disappeared. His partner was arrested with the drugs, but he remained a fugitive. Incredibly, while on the run, he litigated through lawyers requesting exemptions from prison. The State could not find him.
His invisibility was no coincidence. Sources consulted attribute his impunity to the contributions he allegedly made to various sectors of the police for over a decade. He drove high-end cars with no formal income, and at his home in the Abasto neighborhood, sellers would pick up the merchandise in boxes. But fate played a trick on him: the murder of Pillín Bracamonte and his lieutenant in November 2024 put him back on the radar. The provincial prosecutor’s office identified a car registered in his brother’s name that transported the hitmen. Vázquez was the one who provided the shooters, as part of the narco reshuffling that consolidated Los Menores in Central’s fan base.
Last October, he nearly fell at a thermal complex in Victoria, but escaped into the bush after a police commissioner leaked the search. Only on June 16 of this year did the Special Operations Troop catch him in a hallway house in Villa Gobernador Gálvez, the classic hideout for Rosario’s drug traffickers. The province had offered a 25 million peso reward. After that arrest, the federal court finally deigned to charge him.
The indictment, at the request of prosecutor Federico Reynares Solari, closes a circle that took nearly a decade. “Vázquez coordinated the conditioning, storage, distribution, and commercialization of drugs and held a position of hierarchical superiority,” says the Public Prosecutor’s Office. And it adds: “The judge justified pretrial detention based on the flight risk evidenced by the eight years during which the defendant managed to remain evaded.”
Meanwhile, the lingering question is: how many more drug traffickers remain fugitives because Federal Justice does not hurry? The case of former judge Marcelo Bailaque, arrested with an ankle monitor for benefiting Alvarado, is another example of the same slowness. In Rosario, time is a luxury that criminals know how to exploit. And the system, once again, arrives when it is already too late.
Para mí esto es lo que pasa cuando la izquierda controla la justicia: dejan sueltos a narcos como el Narigón Vázquez desde 2018 mientras persiguen a laburantes. Menos derechos humanos para delincuentes y más mano dura, che. ¡Basta de jueces tibios! Viva la libertad carajo.
para mi la justicia federal es una joda de los ricos dejan suelto al narigon vazquez por años y despues se hacen los boludos estos jueces son complices del narco abajo el sistema judicial burgues firmado el rojo