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00:00On November 22, the police arrived in the Carlos Gardel neighborhood in Morón to arrest a 15-year-old boy who was involved in the theft of automobiles.
00:10The unaccused criminal carries on his back two homicides in the event of a robbery.
00:18The detainee was participating in a party.
00:21In the apartment, several bags with a pink powder appear inside.
00:31Nineteen months earlier, on the morning of March 30, 2023,
00:37Emily Rodríguez ends up dead in the courtyard of a collection building.
00:43Along with the businessman, Francisco Seisvaliente, and a Brazilian doctor,
00:48he consumes a drug unknown to most.
00:51A pink powder identified as Tuzi by drug traffickers and consumers.
00:57The girl did not even have a reflex reaction to avoid the impact with her hands.
01:09Doctor, in different police files and operatives,
01:13a pink substance begins to appear in the procedures,
01:20which is called Tuzi or pink cocaine. What is it about?
01:23Pink cocaine is originally a derivative of phenylalanine, which is a stimulant.
01:29The English name is Tuzi because of its chemical name,
01:33and that is why it is known as Tuzi 2 and C, with a name that ends in phenylalanine.
01:40Here, pink cocaine is a substance that we have been seeing for about ten years,
01:45and that has nothing to do with that Tuzi, but has to do with the combination of two substances.
01:51And that has nothing to do with cocaine.
01:53It is called cocaine because it is aspirated.
01:55It is a powder that is aspirated because it is water-soluble and enters through the nose.
01:59And it is pink because it has a pink colorant.
02:01But normally it is a derivative of methamphetamine,
02:05similar to ecstasy, or in some cases it is ecstasy,
02:08with the addition of a hallucinogen.
02:11It is the sum of two substances, one stimulant and the other dissociative or hallucinogenic.
02:22In September 2024, a search in Las Canitas leaves the discovery
02:27that a gang manufactures the pink substance in a homemade laboratory,
02:31mounted in an apartment.
02:33On October 16, 2024, the former leader of One Direction, Liam Payne,
02:38also throws himself into the void, practically unconscious and unable to react.
02:44In his autopsy, and in the hotel room in Palermo,
02:48the remains of Tusi were found.
02:50And the investigators suspect that it was the key to his death.
02:54In both cases, it is very similar to induced psychosis or a fatal agitated delirium.
03:02They are extreme situations where it is not clear that the person wants to commit suicide,
03:07but ultimately ends his life.
03:10Situations that seem like accidents, in both cases, falling into the void.
03:14Now, in neither of the two cases, these people supported their hands when falling,
03:19which is a reflex of the human being.
03:21Exactly, but that has to do with the loss of contact with reality.
03:26A person who is dissociated from reality, who is chemically dissociated,
03:32does not realize that he is falling.
03:34Then he does not protect himself because he does not realize that there is something to protect himself.
03:39Tusi, Tusi-V or pink cocaine, first of all, does not contain cocaine.
03:45Its name is the deformation of a component called 2C-B,
03:50synthesized in the United States by biochemist Alexander Shulgin in 1974.
03:56The original Tusi-V had the appearance of a crystal,
04:01euphoric and psychedelic effects.
04:04It is increasingly frequent.
04:06Ten years ago we started to see it and it was sporadic.
04:10It is a dangerous substance because it has a very powerful stimulant.
04:14It happens to us that in some patients it is more the predisposition to hallucinogens.
04:18Then the patient comes absolutely out of reality,
04:22with a picture of stimulation or psychomotor agitation,
04:25but with a picture of a lot of dissociation.
04:28He has no idea where he is, who he is, or with whom he is.
04:31So it is a much more difficult patient to address.
04:35But in recent years, in the last two years,
04:39the association is becoming more and more frequent.
04:42And this picture worsens much more when the person consumes it with alcohol.
04:47That is, the association of alcohol with pink cocaine and or cocaine
04:53gives us very, very serious pictures that can be of induced psychosis.
04:58We have had some resonant cases that make us think about this association
05:02or what doctors also call fatal agitated delirium,
05:06which are pictures of extreme agitation,
05:09disorientation and loss of contact with reality
05:13that puts the life of the person at risk.
05:16Not only in some cases, physically, due to the direct effect of the substance,
05:20but because in some cases he loses his life due to an accident
05:23that may seem like a suicide, but there was no intention,
05:27but that dissociation means that he cannot assess neither risk nor danger.
05:37The pink drug first appeared in Colombia in 2010.
05:41Then it began to be detected in various incautations in the United States and Europe.
05:47In recent years, the drug has become popular
05:50and is associated with violent deaths and apparent suicides.
05:55There is also talk of the possibility that this drug contains some elements of fentanyl.
06:03I would say that it is basically speculation
06:06because one sees that the mixtures that are made in the world
06:13and have to do many times with the adulteration of the substance.
06:17The adulteration, we are talking about illegal substances.
06:21As they are illegal and come from an illicit,
06:24they are usually adulterated with substances that also come from an illicit.
06:28It is frequent that, for example,
06:30the theft of medical transport trucks ends in the production of illegal substances.
06:36Although there are people who consume cocaine, people who consume alcohol,
06:40people who each relate to the substance in a certain way
06:45and have a reason in their life, in their history,
06:48a reason to relate to that substance.
06:51So we believe that the approach is somehow similar.
06:55Of course, at first, when you have to detoxify a person,
07:00the approach is according to the substance.
07:02It does not detoxify, like an alcoholic, a cocaine addict,
07:05an opium addict who consumes fentanyl, heroin, or who consumes pink cocaine.
07:10Now, the approach from a psychological point of view
07:13has to do with that one-to-one of relating to the substance
07:16and see what are the reasons that lead them to consume a substance.
07:20If one manages to start solving those reasons, consumption begins to fall.
07:25Pink drug, found in different procedures in our country,
07:28contains an unknown formula.
07:30The dye that seeks to attract attention and capture younger consumers
07:35has no effects.
07:36The problem is what it hides.
07:41In the chemical laboratory division of the Federal Police,
07:44we came to consult about what substance is really found
07:49in the different searches carried out in recent years
07:52where this pink powder appears.
07:58We started hearing about it in 2018
08:01and the first pink powders that came to us were in 2019-2020.
08:07But I insist, that is not Tuzzi.
08:09It was a cocaine that was given...
08:11But they call it like that because it would be like the name of the marketer.
08:14The marketer and related to the 12B,
08:17which is a N-bomb, which has nothing to do with cocaine.
08:20This can be one of the devices that ends up analyzing it.
08:22Let's see, what does this device do?
08:24The chemical laboratory division has three chromatographic techniques.
08:28A chromatographic technique from many years ago,
08:31which not because it has, not because we have been using it for 40 years,
08:34it does not work, which is called high plate chromatography.
08:37The gaseous chromatography with two different types of detectors
08:40that we handle here, which is the feed and the mass spectrometer.
08:44And our new liquid chromatograph with a very particular mass detector.
08:48It is a device that costs $500,000
08:51and what it has the possibility is to determine traces of substances
08:55and raise our level of sensitivity.
08:57That is, with this device we can not only determine
09:00the composition of Tuzzi or the composition of new psychoactive substances,
09:03but we could apply it, for example, for environmental pollution,
09:06for water pollution or in search of some type of substance
09:11that is part of a criminal investigation that is in traces.
09:14For example, fentanyl.
09:16That is, with this we could determine fentanyl in situations
09:20where fentanyl, because it is so toxic, is used in low proportion.
09:25Has any proportion of fentanyl appeared
09:28in these pink powders that were analyzed here?
09:30No, no, no.
09:31So, so far, the possibility of fentanyl being used in this body?
09:34No, no, no, no, no, no.
09:36The drug is obtained in channels practically released in Telegram
09:40at a value per gram that doubles that of cocaine.
09:43Associated with electronic parties ten years ago,
09:47the pink drug came out and spilled from the tracks
09:50and is consumed in different events.
09:52However, users and family members do not know its true effects.
09:57It can be MDMA or ketamine.
09:59Ketamine with cocaine.
10:01And in some cases, I think we've seen ketamine with dipyrone.
10:04For now, the pattern is ketamine, but not the mixture of the three.
10:08I don't know if I'm clear on what you're saying.
10:10Yes, of course, of course.
10:11That is to say, it is the same, it seems the same product,
10:14but they are different products.
10:15Exactly.
10:16And when people go to buy, they think they are buying a ...
10:18That they are buying a Tuzi, because they give it three things in one
10:21and it is actually ketamine.
10:23Previously, yes, we have had the record that
10:26that ketamine is actually cocaine with pink dye,
10:30as I just explained to you before.
10:31Ah, too.
10:32Yes, yes.
10:33It is the way that the same traffickers sell the same substance.
10:35And they put pink powder on it and tell you,
10:37I give you Tuzi, it's not Tuzi, it's cocaine.
10:39We lack prevention.
10:40Clearly, we lack campaigns, we lack promotion of healthy habits.
10:46Argentines do not have health as a good thing to take care of.
10:50It is not among the priorities of Argentines.
10:53And this is serious for adults,
10:55because it is the boys who copy the model at home.
10:59If at home it is not important to take care of yourself,
11:01the boys do not learn to take care of themselves.
11:07There we listened to the doctor.
11:10The main thing is the tendency not to take care of us,
11:14the tendency not to take care of health,
11:16the tendency to feel super heroes,
11:19until the body speaks.
11:21Sure.
11:22We may be struggling with a flu, a summer cold,
11:27but this drug, or all drugs in reality,
11:31in the long run, or in the short run,
11:35depending on the amount of consumption and the acidity with which you do it.
11:40What are the mixtures or what is the general one?
11:43Because there he spoke, it is ketamine.
11:45Well, what we can ...
11:47The main ...
11:48Of those that appeared in different operations.
11:51Why did we go to the Federal Police Laboratory?
11:53To, of course, expand the subject.
11:55One thing is what they tell you,
11:57to one who assumes, to a consumer,
11:59then the question of medicine,
12:01and another thing is the Federal Police.
12:03All the police have a record of the growth of this substance.
12:08Yes.
12:09What caught my attention the most
12:11is this inability that anyone who seeks to consume this drug has
12:16to know what it has.
12:17Sure.
12:18It happens with, in general, all drugs.
12:20But this is already directly a mixture of substances
12:23that go ...
12:24One they throw you up, another they throw you down.
12:27This paradoxical question is produced,
12:29which Clavio Guerra told us.
12:30What does this do specifically?
12:32Marijuana, well, is relaxation and so on.
12:36Alcohol, we know what it produces.
12:38Cocaine is agitation.
12:39Cocaine, agitation, pum, up.
12:41Well.
12:42What does this do?
12:43This is also sold as a kind of exciter.
12:46OK.
12:47Rose.
12:49Worse, right?
12:50Yes, a lot of power.
12:52But what happens?
12:53It takes more power than marijuana.
12:55Actually, the Tuzi,
12:57which is where the concept of rose cocaine derives from,
13:00is another element.
13:03What is it?
13:04It's ecstasy.
13:06Pure, crystal.
13:08That was.
13:09But here they don't do this or they're not producing this.
13:12Well, because that's more expensive.
13:14It's more expensive.
13:15So what do they do?
13:16They use another type of substance
13:18than the consumer who went to look for an agitation
13:21and finds that it is completely disconnected from relaxation.
13:24Well, that started, I remember, a long time ago, many years ago,
13:28at the Crimfields or at the parties, when it was called Pachá.
13:33Yes.
13:34The girls gave it to the boys.
13:36Yes.
13:37It was called a nail tip at that time.
13:39Yes, yes, yes.
13:40I remember reports that we have done
13:42to raise it precisely in that excitement and so on.
13:45Exactly.
13:46I think it's very important for good mothers, as a mother,
13:49when you see the pink,
13:52and I found it very interesting what you saw in the report,
13:55that it is pink, it does not mean that it is,
13:58because there are people who think it is more sophisticated,
14:01that it is not going to do so much damage,
14:03because it is pink and it is more expensive.
14:05No, ma'am, it has a colorant.
14:07He said it clearly.
14:08It has a colorant.
14:09And it is very interesting to know.
14:11I don't want to deceive your children,
14:13or because your children were also deceived by the dealer.
14:16In reality, there is a deception,
14:18let's say, it is part of the marketing they have drug dealers.
14:23Why pink?
14:24Why that color?
14:25To attract the youngest.
14:27Exactly.
14:28To attract the youngest.
14:30Before they always told you that the first one they gave it to you,
14:33the second they sold it to you.
14:35This is happening.
14:36Pink, young and women.
14:38We too.
14:39We were here with the mayor of Merlo and he told us that a group of 13 year old girls had been lynched.
14:52The 13 year old girl had become a phenomenal criminal.
14:56They were sent by a group of... I don't know what to call them.
15:01I don't even want to classify them.
15:03Because they are actually murderers.
15:07They would go to Merlo Square, the mayor told us yesterday.
15:11They would go to Merlo Square to give away the drugs.
15:14To give away.
15:15To give away.
15:16So they would come once, twice.
15:18And the boys would be caught there.
15:20Those boys would later become soldiers.
15:22And then those soldiers would be sent to do any kind of crime.
15:26How far does the promotion go?
15:28Sorbo, now that we have you here, good afternoon.
15:30Good afternoon.
15:31Thank you for coming.
15:32How are you?
15:33You were talking about different types of offers, or offers of this product.
15:39On social media, through the internet, is there a sale, a delivery of this type of substance?
15:47Clearly not on the internet that we all use.
15:51Ok.
15:52We go to Google, Yahoo, and we will not find that they are going to sell us drugs.
15:55Yes, but?
15:56But you will find it on what is the deep web.
15:58Is it easy to enter the deep web?
16:01Yes, you have to have a user, a password, and you can enter.
16:06You think that more than the deep web is the dark web.
16:09Ok.
16:10Internet, what we see on the internet is the tip of the iceberg.
16:13Ok.
16:14Then you have another part in the middle that is called the deep web,
16:18where there is a lot of private content, but not illegal.
16:22Private.
16:23Ok.
16:24Example, bank accounts.
16:26Data.
16:27Data, medical data, medical reports.
16:30In fact, when we enter our home banking, we are entering the deep web.
16:34Ok.
16:35It is not the normal internet, because we enter with a user with a password.
16:38Ok.
16:39And below is what is called the dark web, the black part of the internet.
16:43That is worldwide.
16:44Yes, of course.
16:45This is universal, of course.
16:47And what happens with this is that it is not all illegal, what is there.
16:52You can enter the dark web without any problem and you can look for things,
16:57but if you look for drug sales, gun sales, child pornography.
17:05That is not regulated.
17:06No.
17:07No.
17:08Excuse me, Hugo.
17:09You are talking on a large scale.
17:10Yes, of course.
17:11Now, in the narcomenudeo, today, it is sold through Telegram.
17:16Yes.
17:17And I tell you more.
17:18It is very easy access for everyone, because there may be people who do not know how to enter the depths of the web.
17:23Many people do not know.
17:24But the organizations, yes.
17:25He is talking, in this case, of the majority, of what is said.
17:28But, sorry, it can also be sold with some other ...
17:31It depends later on the ability of the criminals or the soldiers to change the phone numbers,
17:36but WhatsApp can also be used.
17:37Well, yes.
17:38Well, but that is a subsequent contact to this offer that appears in this Telegram device.
17:44Once you have it.
17:45Once you have the dealer or whoever you have to sell it to.
17:48In fact, it is what we call narcomenudeo and that in the justice of the city of Buenos Aires,
17:53the courts with criminal, contraventional and default, and the prosecutor's offices work a lot in what is narcomenudeo.
18:01Can I send you to your house if I am a drug trafficker?
18:04Yes, I know cases.
18:05A pizza, and I'm actually sending you five grams of falopa?
18:10Totally.
18:11Yes?
18:12Totally.
18:13I know that in the neighborhoods, I have learned the other day, by chance, this,
18:18delivery, delivery, they leave it to you in the neighborhood guard.
18:21And beware, let's talk about neighborhoods.
18:22Directly.
18:23Private neighborhood, you say?
18:24Yes.
18:25But that, let's talk about the neighborhood on one side and let's talk about the other.
18:28I say, from the richest to the poorest.
18:30It is transversal, it goes through everything.
18:32Exactly, it goes through everything.
18:33I ask basically to see, I always try to think about the solution to all this, right?
18:38The problem is, well, I imagine that the police know it, if you know it,
18:42that this way, this format, this way of being able to sell drugs,
18:48of reaching the door of a closed neighborhood or the door of an apartment with a drug
18:54through a delivery, that maybe, maybe, they don't even know what you're carrying,
18:58because it's in a box, or no, they send you a package, or they call you a remiss.
19:03Yes.
19:04With an application, perhaps the person who drives the car or the bicycle,
19:09maybe he doesn't know what he's carrying.
19:11He has no idea.
19:12It is true that it is within reach of the hand of all social levels, Gonzalo.
19:15Totally.
19:16Here you are talking about the poorest and you are talking about the richest too.
19:19If I get into the dark web today, yes, because I don't have any dealer,
19:26is it difficult or is it easy to approach a dealer?
19:28Yes.
19:31This is like everything, the one who likes football finds people to play football.
19:37Of course.
19:38The one who likes the father finds the father's player and the one who is looking for drugs
19:42finds in 32 seconds.
19:44A tourist comes from outside, he doesn't know anyone.
19:46Yes.
19:47Liam Payne.
19:48There you have it.
19:49Because I want to explain the context of this note that we made.
19:51Yes.
19:52The context of the note is the death of Liam Payne and at the same time...
19:56The boy in Palermo, right?
19:58Yes, from One Direction, who ends up falling, well, similar to Emily,
20:03similar to this woman who hangs herself from the balcony.
20:05Yes.
20:06And it also coincided with a procedure that had been done on a group of minors
20:11who today arrested others, yesterday they arrested three other minors,
20:15who are 15, the members of the Babies, as they call them,
20:20which is an organization that fluctuates between Carlos Gardel and Forte Apache,
20:25who are engaged in car theft.
20:27They are all grandchildren and children of very dangerous criminals.
20:29Incredible.
20:30And there, in the afternoon, one day, at 3 or 4 in the afternoon,
20:33there was a party and they found the pink drug.
20:36So we started to unite and we started to review different files
20:40and find in the amount of files where this pink drug appeared.
20:44And many appeared.
20:45For example, in the case of the death of Liam Payne.
20:47And you know, Gonzalo, you just told me, and through the Internet you can?
20:51The Internet is virtual life.
20:53Of course.
20:54And we, from the pandemic to here, had to learn to live a virtual life
21:00that we did not know, or was known very little, or only to the labor effects.
21:05We, by nature, are used to living real life.
21:10We are here, we can touch, we are.
21:12It's real life.
21:13Yes.
21:14But we had to learn to live virtual life.
21:16Very quickly.
21:17Immediately.
21:18The pandemic placed us in a time and space where we could not go out
21:23and we had to do everything we do now, we had to do it virtually.
21:27The television programs, each one did it from their home.
21:29Yes.
21:30The radio programs too.
21:31Well, the same thing happens with banking issues, the same thing happens with education.
21:35So we had to find something unknown, and the criminal too.
21:41Yes, but I ...
21:42Find something unknown.
21:43Okay, but ...
21:44Get in there.
21:45Let's talk a little bit about the kids, including those who want to get started in this
21:49or who suddenly can reincide in this matter.
21:52Well, the boys were born with this.
21:54Were born with this.
21:55So a kid wants to go to a party.
21:56Hey, let's take Tutsi, for example.
21:59Yes?
22:00Let's take Tutsi.
22:01Come on, let's try it.
22:02How do we do it?
22:03Who knows one?
22:04No, I don't, I don't, I don't.
22:05Get on the Internet.
22:07Does the form exist?
22:08No.
22:09No.
22:10It's Telegram.
22:11It's Telegram.
22:12And it's one-on-one communication.
22:13But I get on Telegram and what am I going to find?
22:15Hello, I'm looking for drugs.
22:16What do I put?
22:17There was ...
22:18Now they eliminated it.
22:19Now they eliminated it a few months ago for security reasons.
22:21I'm asking this so that the parents on the other side are also attentive.
22:24The group was eliminated a few months ago.
22:26Some two or three months.
22:28Eliminated in that function on Telegram for this problem.
22:31It was called People Near You.
22:34The person near you is you.
22:36By the location of the phone, a series of groups appear
22:40that offered all kinds of things.
22:42Okay.
22:43All kinds.
22:44They can even offer you a gun.
22:46Those people near you.
22:48Yes, a group that is called in such a way.
22:52And then, for example, you.
22:54The example you give.
22:55They went to a party in Recoleta.
22:57He goes to the party in Recoleta and, well,
23:00and it occurs to him that he wants to consume a drug X.
23:03Yes.
23:04And then people get there to see who is around here,
23:08let's say, near this place that is offering this product.
23:12Yes.
23:13Well, and that way they contacted each other
23:15and there is the contact with the dealer that you say.
23:18They changed this function a few months ago
23:21because of security issues.
23:22Because those people near you could tell you, for example,
23:25there are many women or men, but women,
23:30who showed up for some dates
23:32and then ended up being black widows.
23:34Sure.
23:35This is much easier for teenagers.
23:38Guys, at every party,
23:40and I have a permanent contact with teenagers,
23:42at every party there is one that offers it to you
23:44and there you have direct contact.
23:46There is someone who is going to sell.
23:47There is always going to be one who is going to sell it to you.
23:49This is how it works.
23:50Do you know how he bought the substance?
23:51And now, in private neighborhoods, as you say,
23:53multitudinous parties are held
23:56with someone who sells them the drug
23:58and the guys are already prepared that a guy is going to come
24:01and the one who does not take...
24:02And it is the last place where you can go to the police
24:05because they are not authorized parties.
24:07And because it is a private house.
24:08Sure, sure.
24:09And there they enter and the one who does not take,
24:11unfortunately, is the face of the party.
24:14And being the face of the party is the one that leaves you out...
24:18Sorry.
24:19It leaves you out of a social extract.
24:22The kids learn that he is the face of the party
24:24and then he turns into Mark Zuckerberg.
24:26Exactly.
24:27He is the smartest in the brigade.
24:29Remember in our time, the one who did not smoke was the face
24:31or who did not drink alcohol?
24:32This is exactly the same.
24:33Analyzed?
24:34Today, the one who does not take drugs is the face.
24:36That's why parents have to take this into account
24:38when they get home.
24:39When it's actually the other way around.
24:41With something important.
24:43The smell of teenagers is very important.
24:46Well, these drugs don't have a smell.
24:47Because these drugs, yes.
24:48No, not these.
24:49Yours has a smell.
24:50If you get close to the nose.
24:52It has a smell?
24:53Yes.
24:54I don't know, but I don't know.
24:55If you get close to the nose.
24:56I want two details.
24:58But it has to be a half-experienced father.
25:00But if you get close to the nose,
25:02by the gestures you can realize it,
25:04by the jaw and by the eyes.
25:06But in the nose, the smell...
25:07Many songs talk about the smell of children.
25:09It has an acetate smell.
25:10It's close to the nose of the child.
25:12Because they are very teenagers.
25:14Cocaine has a smell.
25:15It has a special smell, yes.
25:17Smell of what?
25:19Acetate.
25:20Exactly.
25:21Acetate.
25:22What is it?
25:23Nail polish?
25:24Yes.
25:25It's a chemical.
25:26It's a special chemical.
25:27It's metallic.
25:28It's used as a precursor.
25:29Have you ever talked to someone
25:30who is talking next to you
25:31and has a metallic smell?
25:33It smells metallic.
25:34No, I saw a robot one day,
25:35but no, no, no.
25:36It hasn't come close to people.
25:37It's the same as marihuana,
25:38which smells a lot more.
25:39Marihuana, yes.
25:40But you've never been to a police station
25:42and talked to someone close to you?
25:44Yes.
25:45And you never noticed?
25:47No.
25:48No?
25:49No, no.
25:50Well...
25:51Can you stay still for a moment?
25:52Yes, of course.
25:53Do you think it's okay?