In its article 251, the CPE states that “the Bolivian Police, as a public force, has the specific mission of defending society and maintaining public order, and compliance with the laws throughout the national territory.” A mission carried out exactly the other way around during the unstoppable escalation of violence that, for three weeks, made Santa Cruz and its people suffer due to the demand for a timely and transparent census.
With the deployment of reinforcements, -nobody swallowed the story of the relief of troops for their rest-, a repressive apparatus was constituted and well oiled that, in addition, from superior commands seemed to have carte blanche to persecute, apprehend, beat and torture defenseless citizens. Or to support and protect mobs of outlaws in fences and attacks against municipalities, peripheral neighborhoods and urban areas of a city that they sought to terrorize and martyr. The record of images of abuse is profuse on social networks and the media.
The Police, with its special units, it acted as if it were the executing arm of the violence of a dictatorial government. From a rogue state that trampled on the rights of its citizens, in addition to leaving them helpless. At the mercy of police brutality. Someone will have to take responsibility for what happened and for the noisy rupture of the link between a community and the Police. It will take a lot of time and effort to restore a relationship that was already badly damaged by corruption and loss of trust in the olive green entity.
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