The National Police yesterday announced the arrest of 18 people linked to a criminal organisation. This criminal group promoted and carried out rituals for profit in which they supplied prohibited psychoactives dangerous to health, generally with ayahuasca. The arrests took place in several locations in Spain, including Ibiza.
The founder of this organization, who died during the investigation of the case, was Alberto José Varela, born in Buenos Aires in 1961. He was the creator of the company Ayahuasca Internationalwhich celebrates neo-shamanic rituals all over the world, also in Ibiza.
Chicote, Yatiri and the shamanic sect
In addition to this alleged ‘spiritual retreat’, Alberto José Varela and his family opened a restaurant in Ibiza, Yatiri , organic and ecological food. The establishment was not doing well, so the owners contacted the La Sexta program ‘Pesadilla en la cocina’. Chicote and his team filmed in Ibiza at the Yatiri restaurant in October 2014 and to say goodbye to this recording a press conference took place in which Chicote himself and the Varela family attended the media to present the new menu and the changes made by the chef.
Chicote says goodbye to his nightmare in Ibiza
In June 2015, the program of the restaurant Yatiri was broadcast and in the images you can see Alberto José Varela himself, along with his two daughters and son (co-owners of the restaurant) and his ex-wife. In it, the family argues constantly. Varela’s ex-wife accuses him that his daughters did not receive his support in taking the business forward, when the idea of setting up this type of business had come from the founder of Ayahuasca International.
The patriarch already had a Yatiri restaurant in Madrid, and his idea was to generate a kind of franchise in Ibiza that, not even with the help of Chicote, managed to survive, since shortly after the program was broadcast, the business was transferred for 70,000 euros.In the broadcast of Chicote’s ‘Nightmare in the Kitchen’ program in Ibiza, it could be seen that the owners of the Yatiri restaurant, Varela’s two daughters, apparently former models, and the son, a young hippie who was dedicated to building handcrafted musical instruments, had no experience whatsoever in hospitality.
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