The El Gallito neighborhood, in zone 3 of the capital, is an area where life takes place between an environment of “supposed” security for neighbors, obligatory control and the payment of extortion attributed to THE CAREthe criminal band that controls the area.
Entering that site is not easy, because the vigidas and the safety of the carabades restrict the income and even stop suspicious vehicles or that do not usually circulate in the El Gallito neighborhood.
These controls have caused several pilots who entered by mistake to the El Gallito neighborhood have been shot dead. This is the count of the most recent cases.
On Thursday, March 27, a family from Sololá was looking for a medical clinic, but the traffic application directed them to El Gallito, without them knowing it.
When the family was traveling on the 13th A and 3rd Avenue in Zone 3, in the El Gallito neighborhood, Armed men shot them.
The vehicle pilot was identified as Jorge Rosalío Cuc Saloj, 34, who resulted in two gunshot wounds in the back and was transferred to the emergence of the San Juan de Dios General Hospital.
CUC companions were unharmed, but they had nervous breakdown for the incident, lifeguards informed the media.
Another error in the transit app
On January 9, two women – one of the elderly – moved in a vehicle and followed indications of a traffic application that took them to the El Gallito neighborhood, without them knowing that they had entered that place.
When they had admitted to that site, armed men were high, but the driver ignored them. Some bikers approached him to lower the glass of the car, But then they shot her when she tried to get out of that place.
The woman managed to drive the vehicle near Elena Avenue, in Zone 1, and asked the agents of the National Civil Police who were in the place for the situation that occurred with members of the Lev Tahor sect.
Firefighters established that she and her companion had nervous breakdown, so they were taken to a health center.
The authorities mentioned that the victim was a medical visitor and was looking for a medical clinic, but the traffic application took it to El Gallito.
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He entered the El Gallito neighborhood by mistake
Following the recent attack of March 27, a woman reported Free press the case that lived in the late 2024.
He explained that she was driving her vehicle on the 14th street of Zone 1, but by mistake he continued to the El Gallito neighborhood instead of crossing towards the avenue that leads to the general cemetery.
He said that his vehicle was not polarized and, when he realized that he had entered a place he was not, he stopped to ask how to leave.
“A lady explained to me how to get out of the place. I had to circulate several blocks and, while I did, I think that men on motorcycle followed me. I heard some detonations, but I don’t know if they were shots or cohetillos, but my car was not hit by anything,” he said.
He acknowledged that he did not complain because nothing happened to him, although several people have told him that they most likely were shot to intimidate her.
In a note published in Free press On February 20, 2025, entitled The Happy Gallito: A business that has marked the way of operating a criminal structurehow difficult it is to live in several sectors of that neighborhood is mentioned.
You have to lower the glass
“Router sellers, collectors and even the neighbors themselves must lower the glass of the vehicles so that the subjects who take care of the entrance know who we are, and in the case of those who do not live here, they must say where they are going,” said a neighbor of the sector.
The residents of the sector added that in El Gallito, parking a car in front of a house does not go unnoticed, because soon, armed subjects approach, surround the vehicle and take a look through the windows to make sure everything is in order.
They even mention, you cannot park anywhere, since there are sites designated for the members of THE CAREthat move drug trafficking and extortion in place, among other illicit.