‘El Colla’ speaks again, but cannot yet testify due to medical advice

The defense attorney for Ivar García (alias ‘El Colla’), Silvestre Ibáñez, reported that his client “nEurologically he is not stable, he remains sedated and on strong medication. The medicine has him stunned. The bullets remain in his body and his lungs are still compromised.”

In contact with Radio EL DEBER, Ibáñez revealed that his client woke up and started talking again; but due to medical advice he still cannot make any statement to the Prosecutor’s Office.. Furthermore, the coroner issued a 50-day ban on the patient.

Erland Ivar García López, a man born in Buena Vista, in the department of Santa Cruz, turned 32 on July 14, according to his personal document. ‘El Colla’ began to gain notoriety after being linked to the organization of Uruguayan drug trafficker Sebastián Marset.

Police investigations into the Uruguayan drug trafficker ended up implicating his trusted people, those with whom he had a social life and did business in Bolivia; Among them was ‘El Colla’, who was accused of being Marset’s front man and ‘right-hand man’.

‘El Colla’ was the victim of a violent attack, in which he was shot and wounded after receiving a burst of gunfire while he was inside a vehicle; one of his companions, Pastor Zampiery, was killed after being riddled with at least seven shots.

The shooting took place on September 1 of this year (on the Cotoca-Pailas highway), almost a year after being implicated in the Marset organization; However, the violent incident that left him intubated in therapy at a clinic, would also have been caused by internal disputes within the criminal organization, according to the versions handled by the Police.

The jurist’s version was confirmed by prosecutor Julio César Porras, who He also said that they are monitoring García’s clinical progress on a daily basis.