September 30, 2022, 10:41 PM
September 30, 2022, 10:41 PM
Gudelia Botitano, the coca grower leader of Los Yungas, managed to be released and released from her detention revealed that the Police beat her and wanted to force her to admit that she was there to incriminate other leaders. Police had denied that they had hit the 54-year-old leader.
“I can take off my clothes and show how they have beaten me, I have to show how they have beaten me wanting me to involve my peers of crimes that we have not committed”, declared between sobs, Botitano.
On Wednesday, September 28, a spectacular police operation was carried out that he harassed four leaders of Los Yungas, three women and one man, whom he persecuted as outlaws; three of the leaders managed to evade the plainclothes policemen, but they apprehended Botitano.
This Friday it was learned that the objective of the Police was the leader, Rosalba Vargas, who was part of the group, but she managed to escape along with Carlos Choque. Vargas is the third in the hierarchy of the cocalero leadership and is accused of 15 crimes, as are her two companions, Freddy Machicado and César Apaza, who are already detained in the San Pedro prison.
“I am a 54-year-old woman, I have been wrongly accused in this casethe truth is that I am very indignant at what I am accused of, I also tell them (to the prosecutors) that they are not with the truth, I feel bad, I have not been in the place in the first place and second, they say that I would have been a dynamite, that he had carried weapons in the place, that is unheard of”, reiterated the veteran leader.
According to the accusation presented before the Seventh Criminal Investigation Court, the Prosecutor’s Office is not sure if Gudelia Botitano was at the scene and only presumes that it could have been in the excesses that occurred at noon on September 8.
“If you knew the reason for calling the march and what its objective was, which was to take over the parallel market and destroy it, you can presume that he was present on that fateful day points out the accusation.
This hypothesis was taken from the intelligence report on page 19, where it is observed that Botitano signs the call for the coca march.
The prosecution He took Botitano to a hearing for a presumption and because the leader signed a call for mobilization.
“It has been seen by the media, you can see who has thrown the molotov cocktails, the dynamite, the weapons, where there was the ground coca, gasoline, you (the media) have identified; My person was not in the place, but we have seen and we know who is the other person who wants to involve us,” said Botitano, clearly alluding to the leader, Arnold Alanes, who is accused of having the support of the Government.
The accusation against the leader contains 12 crimes that he had committed: havoc, fire, serious and minor injuries, attack on public propertydeprivation of liberty, preventing or hindering the exercise of functions, search of the home or its dependencies, aggravated robbery, kidnapping, attacks against members of State security agencies, illicit arms trafficking, and public incitement to commit crimes.
