San Juan, April 6 (EFE) .- The Puerto Rican reggaeton Wisin y Yandel not paid by a presentation made at a Christmas party organized in 2008 by Angel Ayala Vázquez, accused of drug trafficking, his agent said Monday in a trial. In responding to questions from the prosecutor Maritza Gonzalez in the Federal Court in Old San Juan, where it is judged Ayala Vázquez, Ángel Mejías representative said that only received a payment that night the team members, including dancers, among others.
"One person came with a bag and I opened it, saw it was the money for the 'crew' of us, but not paid Wisin y Yandel," said Mejias on the concert that took place in December 2008 in a complex housing built by the Government to low-income people in Bayamon, a city adjacent to San Juan. The reggaeton duo, meanwhile, said through a press release that refused to charge for his performance in this event because they did it as a "gift" to correspond "to the love and support" always gave the neighbors the complex, called Residencial Jose Celso Barbosa.
It is believed that from there Vázquez Ayala, known as "Boster" or "Buster", "The black" or "Papa Upa", led the major drug trafficking organization in Puerto Rico from 1995 until he was arrested in September 2009. Vázquez Ayala is accused of having smuggled drugs into the U.S. from Venezuela and Colombia, with which it earned profits of $ 100 million, and may be sentenced to a minimum sentence of ten years in prison to life.
In the same trial, the producer of the merengue singer Elvis Crespo, Ender Vega, said today that it received $ 12,000 in cash for a presentation by the artist in the complex Barbosa in 2008. The authorities were about to arrest Ayala Vázquez in June of that year when property and assets confiscated as a recording studio linked to the organization of the now stopped.
Among the reggaeton artists that used to refer to Ayala Vazquez as "Buster" or "Boster" in their songs are Don Omar and Hector Delgado, formerly known as Héctor "El Father." In the Residential Barbosa also Wisin y Yandel and Elvis Crespo, presented Don Omar, Mario VI, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Aventura and singer Sean Paul.
In February and March 2009, Don Omar and Wisin y Yandel appeared in federal court in Hato Rey, San Juan sector, before a grand jury investigating cash payments received by the 2008 Christmas concert. 
"One person came with a bag and I opened it, saw it was the money for the 'crew' of us, but not paid Wisin y Yandel," said Mejias on the concert that took place in December 2008 in a complex housing built by the Government to low-income people in Bayamon, a city adjacent to San Juan. The reggaeton duo, meanwhile, said through a press release that refused to charge for his performance in this event because they did it as a "gift" to correspond "to the love and support" always gave the neighbors the complex, called Residencial Jose Celso Barbosa.
It is believed that from there Vázquez Ayala, known as "Boster" or "Buster", "The black" or "Papa Upa", led the major drug trafficking organization in Puerto Rico from 1995 until he was arrested in September 2009. Vázquez Ayala is accused of having smuggled drugs into the U.S. from Venezuela and Colombia, with which it earned profits of $ 100 million, and may be sentenced to a minimum sentence of ten years in prison to life.
In the same trial, the producer of the merengue singer Elvis Crespo, Ender Vega, said today that it received $ 12,000 in cash for a presentation by the artist in the complex Barbosa in 2008. The authorities were about to arrest Ayala Vázquez in June of that year when property and assets confiscated as a recording studio linked to the organization of the now stopped.
Among the reggaeton artists that used to refer to Ayala Vazquez as "Buster" or "Boster" in their songs are Don Omar and Hector Delgado, formerly known as Héctor "El Father." In the Residential Barbosa also Wisin y Yandel and Elvis Crespo, presented Don Omar, Mario VI, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Aventura and singer Sean Paul.
In February and March 2009, Don Omar and Wisin y Yandel appeared in federal court in Hato Rey, San Juan sector, before a grand jury investigating cash payments received by the 2008 Christmas concert.
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