Five reported dead due to narcoterrorist actions | Reportan cinco fallecidos por acciones del narcoterrorismo

By El Diario:

In three days of extreme violence in two regions

  • Three police officers were murdered by irregular armed groups in the town of Llallagua; in addition, one officer and one civilian died in a pro-Evo Morales blockade in Cochabamba.
  • Security and defense expert Jorge Santisteban warned that the Government left police and military personnel exposed without proper technical or material conditions.
Violent irregular groups caused chaos in the towns of Llallagua, Potosí, and the Tropics of Cochabamba.

Criminal actions by illegal armed groups, financed by drug trafficking, resulted in four police officers being murdered—three in the municipality of Llallagua, Potosí. Additionally, one police officer and one civilian died in the “evista” blockades that have continued for more than 10 days in the Tropics of Cochabamba.

The Minister of Government, Roberto Ríos Sanjinés, confirmed that four law enforcement officers and one civilian lost their lives amid violence and clashes between the police and “evista” social sectors in Potosí and Cochabamba.

The victims in the Potosí town of Llallagua were identified as Police Second Lieutenants Brayan Jorge Barrozo Rodríguez and Carlos Enrique Apata Tola, along with Fire Department Sergeant Second Class Jesús Alberto Mamani Morales.

In Cochabamba, the death of Christian Calle Alcón, also a Second Lieutenant, was reported after his body was found yesterday in the locality of Confital. The officer died due to a dynamite explosion, while the civilian died from the alleged mishandling of explosives.

Regarding the extreme violence of the past three days, security and defense expert Jorge Santisteban told EL DIARIO, “there is negligence, improvisation, and a great deal of passivity” on the part of the authorities, given that the units sent to Llallagua were there merely as “blockade-breakers” and not with the mission of settling or controlling the relentless violence.

Santisteban stated firmly that the ongoing violent activity in the region cannot be explained any other way: “The drug traffickers do not want to lose power (…) All of them—blockaders, marchers, and terrorist groups in Llallagua—are linked to drug money and connected to criminal organizations.”

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