SALTA/JUJUY.- Federal Judge Carlos Olivera Pastor Jujuy can not banish from his mind the memory of that morning while working at the Court No. 2, in charge, found a decapitated head of a human in a box that had been left at the bottom of his car, parked in front of the building. "At the top of the box was a five-digit number, like a court file, and inside, the head of a person, not the bone, as told by some means, but an entire head, with hair, skin, teeth and eyes. It was dry, as if from some time ago, "says the magistrate, who relates this apparent threat to the causes related to drug trafficking and consumption. It was September 2011, only in the first half of the year, it took more than 400 drug related cases.
Pastor Olivera is not the only judicial officer allegedly threatened the region. The clerk of court criminal was beaten, and two federal judges and a prosecutor would have been intimidated Salta.None of them rule out the hypothesis that these events are linked to drug trafficking cases in their courts bearing, and some agreed to warn about the strengthening of international drug traffickers in the region.
"I do not want to mislead anyone that the government can win the battle against drugs," Anibal Fernandez acknowledged in 2005, according to leaked Wikileaks.
"Are we going to wait in Jujuy find a car with five people dead inside, as happens in Ciudad Juarez, or found dead hanging or killing a judge to begin to combat this scourge?" He told the NATION Judge Olivera Pastor.
The criminal case the same court secretary, Federico Zurueta was the one who uncovered the scandal of the threats. On October 19, 2011, he left his apartment in downtown San Salvador de Jujuy, two strangers at the door caught him and beat him brutally. Zurueta was two days after assuming control as Judge of Jujuy province.They left him lying on the floor with a clear message: "Do not assume as a judge." The official, 35, was hospitalized under observation for several days. Today, three months later, still taking office and proceeds to police custody.
"From what happened to me I'm guarded 24 hours. I can not leave my house if I have a policeman to accompany me. I can not live peacefully," he told the court clerk.
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When the fact becomes relevant Zurueta public came to light cases of other judges who had also been alleged serious threats, including federal Judge Olivera Pastor. "For me it's a clear message extortion and mafia-said-it is known that there are transnational drug trafficking organizations established in the North."
Leonardo Bavio, by the Federal Court No. 2 of Salta, was apparently threatening phone calls at the same time when, by his order, was demolished in the low Salta, a city neighborhood, a house that used a drug gang "from safehouse to collect and distribute drugs." In addition, this judge was responsible for processing Jorge Dubiel, a former commander of the Gendarmerie Nationale accused of involvement in a cocaine trafficking case in Salta.
Federal prosecutor Jose Villalba also underwent a violent episode, a man fell from a group with a machete in hand and would have tried to enter his office. The policeman who was at the door stopped him.
The most troubling, according to official figures show, is the department of Oran, 130 thousand inhabitants, located in northern Salta. According to the provincial Drug Enforcement Agency, 50% of drug seizures take place there, where news sources are confident that the "narcos stories are part of daily bread in the streets."
Three months ago, about 4000 people took to the streets to make a public demonstration to protest the drug trade. Alicia, who was present at the march, told local media with much concern: "Hopefully this is the first step towards ending those killing our young people. I am very worried that my kids are raised here." Claudio Ruiz, one of the organizers of the protest, accused the authorities: "Justice in Oran does not work: more and more drugs and the judge says it's just a moral issue. What really happens is that Oran is released , so that amount of drug circulating in our streets, "he told local media.
There, in Oran, Federal Judge Raul Reynoso said he shook off an attack because of his official car driver realized early on that he had placed four kilos of sugar in the gas tank. "They wanted the car to stop to kill me," he told local media. Reynoso was in the first half of this year almost 1250 dossiers for drug trafficking, including the seizure of 380 kilos of cocaine found in a van and arrested over a dozen gendarmes involved in trafficking and smuggling, according to the House Appeals of Salta.
The threats led to pronouncements of the Council of Magistrates and Judges Association and the National Justice officials , who expressed his "condemnation and solidarization". The security minister, Nilda Garre, ordered to "strengthen the security of staff and their families" and said that "the aggression suffered by these five officials represents an assault on the entire National Judiciary as a whole."
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