Eight years after Venezuelan rapper Canserbero's apparent suicide and days after Rolling Stone magazine named him at the top of its list of the 50 biggest names in rap history, Venezuelan prosecutors have reopened the investigation into his death. A few weeks later, in the middle of the Christmas season, he had results and revealed that the suicide hypothesis, about which there had always been doubts, was finally reversed. The rapper, whose name according to the new version of the authorities is Tyrone José González Orama, was stabbed by his representative María Natalia Amesquita, partner of the musician Carlos Molnar, who also died from the wounds she inflicted on him.
Prosecutor Tarek William Saab, who has given several press conferences on the case in recent weeks, asked cameras this Thursday to play one of the rapper's most emblematic songs, called him a martyr and confessed to having made a deal with him in a tattoo parlor to have achieved. “We have complied and Canserbero can rest in peace wherever he is because those who killed him are now in prison,” he said during an appearance in which he ended with “Canserbero lives!” one Adaptation of the slogan that has been used and repeated in almost everyone. Official acts in honor of former President Hugo Chávez. At the same time, the officer revealed the results of the investigation collected in a series of videos obtained from the confession of the artist's manager and her brother, music producer Guillermo Amestica, who were also implicated in the crime. According to prosecutors, both appeared to be handcuffed during pre-dawn police interviews last week.
In her story, María Natalia Amestica tells of some disagreements about money with her partner Carlos Molnar, a musician and friend of Cansebero, due to the organizational costs incurred during the artist's tour of Chile this year. He had also argued with Canserbero, who had reportedly asked him to no longer be his representative. These were the motivations behind the act when they both went to his house to record some videos for their next presentations. She made them a tea to which she added an anxiolytic, and when Molnar was sleepy, she stabbed him in the neck. According to her story, Canserbero saw her and later, when he fell asleep, also inflicted two wounds on her side. Amestica called his brother, who in turn asked some officers of the state intelligence agency Sebin for help in organizing the crime scene, pretending that the rapper had murdered his friend in the middle of a psychotic break due to schizophrenia and then died. He would have thrown himself from a window of Amestica's apartment on the 10th floor of a building in the city of Maracay, 100 kilometers from Caracas, on January 20, 2015.
This would not be the end of the chain of complicity. According to the brothers' statements, the criminal police who came to investigate the incident demanded a bribe of $ 10,000 to support the murder-suicide hypothesis. According to the investigation, after the incident, the Amesticas traveled to Chile, but returned to Venezuela after the case was dropped. “These brutal revelations reveal how the Chilean Amestica brothers, out of hatred, envy, vindictiveness and financial ambition, conspired to kill Tyrone González, Canserbero and Carlos Molnar,” the prosecutor said.
María Natalia and Guillermo Amestica were arrested last week. This emerges from statements made on social networks by Claudia Amestica, the daughter of the accused producer, who denied the prosecutor's accusations and assured that her relatives were held incommunicado for nine days since they made the statement at a police station. He reported denying them access to their lawyers. In addition, this Tuesday the authorities arrested the pathologist Solangel Mendoza, who would have carried out the first autopsy on Canserbero in 2015. Saab has also raised a possible new cause: the alleged improper collection of royalties for the rapper's three albums.
In Venezuela, in the last two months, Chavismo has suffered a high turnout in the primaries in which María Corina Machado received all the support, it returned to negotiations with the opposition in Barbados and opened a front against Guyana with a referendum The Essequibo, which raised doubts about its mobilization power, exchanged American prisoners for businessman Alex Saab, who is linked to government affairs and accused of alleged money laundering in the United States. He also included in his agenda the reopening of the Canserbero case, the exhumation of the rapper's body, of which he carried out a virtual autopsy with 3D reconstruction of the already skeletal remains – “the first in the country” according to Saab – which ultimately led to the arrest and the confessions of the murderers and the officers who tampered with the crime scene were obtained.
The revision of the myth of Canserbero, recently voted the best rapper in Spanish language history by Rolling Stone magazine, also found a platform in the new show Maduro Podcast, which Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores created his first Guests at public prosecutor Saab at the beginning of December. In the relaxed conversation with headphones, the head of the State Ministry explained his assumptions about the ability of a person with schizophrenia to remove the glass from the window in order to commit suicide, as follows from the first hypotheses that suggested that the artist suffered from this disorder suffer . mentally and what the body of someone who jumped from the tenth floor should look like. At this point, the prosecutor revealed that the crime scene had been staged by Canserbero, whereupon Maduro confirmed that everything seemed to indicate that “that boy” had been murdered, and the First Lady took the opportunity to emphasize the “commitment to good causes “to highlight. and describe as “a light” the prosecutor Saab, who began a crusade against reggaeton months ago before reopening this case.