Wednesday December 28, 2022 | 9:59 p.m.
A teacher was murdered this afternoon in the town of Bernardo de Irigoyen while driving her car through the Obrero neighborhood. The crime was committed by two hitmen who were moving on a motorcycle and intercepted her to fire at least seven shots.
According to the first information, the victim was identified as Carla Betiana De Olivera, 37 years old.
It is known at the moment that the woman was in control of her Renault Sandero vehicle, and that she was accompanied by her 42-year-old husband, who would have received two shots from a large-caliber firearm but survived. He would be the brother of the Director of Public Works of the Municipality.
Members of the Misiones Police are working on the scene and there is an extensive operation in the border area aimed at finding the murderers, who all indicate escaped to Brazil.
The hit man business is rooted in Bernardo de Irigoyen
Smuggling and crime, two words that in the town of Bernardo de Irigoyen have a pragmatic meaning: they are executed. That dangerous region on the dry border with Brazil added this afternoon the fifth murder in just ten months and if we move a little further in time, it is the sixth with similar characteristics in less than two years: five executed by hitmen. It is also the second in just three months.
At the beginning of the series, let us remember the shooting of the lawyer from Entre Ríos, Juan María López (50), committed in May of last year, at the hands of two hit men on a motorcycle who crossed him hours after arriving in the town.
Another lawyer who was with him as a companion was unharmed in the shooting, so he was able to escape and at first he was also investigated.
The main hypothesis pointed to a reckoning but little progress was made in this regard and the investigation is moving slowly, so much so that there are not even any detainees.
executed in front of son
Under the same modality, in November of that same year, the merchant Rafael Antúnez de Olivera (45) was shot to death while he was waiting for the green light at the traffic light accompanied by his 13-year-old son, a direct witness to the bullets that struck down his father.
They were mobilizing in a Chevrolet Montana truck on Andrés Guacurarí avenue, a few blocks from the commune police station when he received at least two shots from a firearm. The murderer was riding a motorcycle that stopped next to it, taking advantage of the fact that the traffic light was red. There are also no suspects in custody.
DeLara’s crime
Three months later, in February of this year, Ariel Camargo de Lara (19) was shot to the head, later buried in a rural area of the San Roque area. He was the nephew of Walter de Lara, a drug trafficker convicted of drug trafficking who had been released a short time before.
It was learned that Ariel would have received a call around 2:50 on Friday, February 4, leaving his residence to answer the phone and since then no one else has seen him. He was missing for five days and at first the hypothesis of a kidnapping was raised, but it could not be confirmed due to the lack of evidence.
The discovery of the body occurred at the request of the testimonial statement of a minor to whom one of the alleged participants would have confessed his participation in the crime and even offered the name of the person who accompanied him (now wanted), and even He referred to the sequence since Camargo de Lara left his house under supposed deceptions that morning. A young man is detained for the act and another is still a fugitive, it is believed that the perpetrator of the execution is a Brazilian.
Diego murdered, Maxi disappeared
In April Diego Pimentel (31) was shot by Adilson Zang (33), who is suspected of having had something to do with the disappearance of Maximiliano Pimentel (24) -Diego’s cousin- about whom nothing has been known since the beginning of that month.
In the bloody fabric that currently has two families mired in mourning and uncertainty, having to bury one hoping to find the other alive, businesses at odds with legality linked to smuggling once again appear as a key piece, a common factor in all the rest.
Diego was assassinated when he approached the attacker’s house to ask for explanations about Maximiliano’s disappearance, since he worked with Zang in wine trafficking on the border. The violent sequence was recorded by a security camera and although the murderer turned himself in to the authorities, there is not a single indication of the missing person.
Chany Fernandez
On the morning of September 23, Sebastián “Chany” Fernández Da Rosa was shot to death in a merchandise warehouse located on the border with Brazil.
The murderer, aboard a motorcycle, fired several shots at Da Rosa and then fled. The victim’s relatives were the ones who took him to the local hospital, where his death was confirmed.
The man, owner of several properties in the border area, was directly involved in organizing jeep and buggy competitions as part of the Los Indomables Jeep Club and also participated with his close group in country activities. “He was key in the creation of the volunteer fire department,” added an acquaintance. In this context, his family continues to demand justice but the investigation is stalled.
Finally this afternoon the victim was the teacher Carla Betiana De Olivera, although unofficial versions indicate that the attack was directed at her husband, who was with her in the car and survived. Although the investigation is incipient, it is not ruled out that it has to do with the smuggling of wine and fuel.
Symptoms of the presence of organized crime in Misiones
Regarding the attacks by hitmen in Misiones, it is worth remembering that at the beginning of August of this year the businessman and former candidate for mayor of the town of Campo Ramón, Leonardo Faviero, was lucky enough to dodge the bullets of a hired assassin and on 7 In May, newsstand Cristian Díaz (31) was riddled with bullets by hired assassins in the Yohasá neighborhood of Posadas, a crime that shook the capital due to the way in which he was executed and at the same time allowed him to be associated with drug trafficking. It is believed based on solid evidence that it was a settling of scores, with two Brazilians in custody, one linked to the Bala Na Cara organization.
The statistics make it clear that executions by hitmen are no longer isolated in this province, the modality is imposed by organized crime that does not know how to resolve differences in any other way than with bullets.
Juan Alberto Martens Molas is a prestigious doctor in Criminology and a Paraguayan investigator who, after many years working in the field, knows in detail how the criminal organizations operating in Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina move, what they are pursuing and where they are going.
The territory recently spoke with him to delve into the operating system, the dominant presence of some Brazilian gangs in the countries that border Misiones, and the increasingly frequent appearance of hitmen.
“The border territories today are going through moments of fluctuations in the movement of illicit merchandise that is transported from one side of the border to the other, and as this increases and problems arise, there will be more frequent cases of hit men, as in all of Latin America in areas where organized crime is established”, he analyzed and in the same sense warned: “Where there is organized crime, sooner or later the hit men arrive, because sooner or later problems appear and the way in which these gangs solve them is executing through paid assassins who are often hired or directly form part of the armed wing”.
