A new attempt to unblock the Cochabamba routes will launch the Government through the mobilization of at least 8,000 troops who are being transferred from the department of La Paz to Cochabamba. It will be the second attempt in a week by the Executive to clear the roads before the entry of the military.
“In compliance with circular memorandum 138/2024 of the national directorate of planning and operations, from the department of La Paz to the department of Cochabamba, with the purpose of supporting police operations to maintain and restore public order to execute the Cochabamba departmental police command, in compliance with our constitutional mission,” indicates part of the operations plan that was approved by the Police and to which EL DEBER agreed.
The voluminous plan has already been delivered and is expected its application from October 30, The command center will be in the city of Cochabamba. It contemplates the number of troops in each unit, the vehicles that will leave for that city and where they must join the force that is being prepared in that capital.
On Friday, October 25, the police used 1,700 officers and 130 vehicles to clear the road. On that occasion, Vinto was cleared and the Police took the bridge in Parotani, which is the place of greatest resistance. But besieged by the peasants, the police withdrew from the area and lost their advance.
Now the plan includes more than triple that number of police officers that will arrive in Cochabamba. The coca growers themselves denounced on Monday night that the Police were asking at the EL Alto terminal about the possibility of hiring 30 buses to transport the troops to the Valluna capital.
“The La Paz Departmental Police Command will execute an administrative movement by land from the city of La Paz to the Department of Cochabamba, in Public Transportation vehicles (Buses),” the police plan states.
