Almost 24 hours after the Porongo tragedy, the Minister of Government, Carlos Eduardo Del Castillo, posted a tweet stating that they will continue to investigate the case; while his political detractors demanded action against the assassins who murdered the three police officers in that town.
“We want to communicate to the Bolivian people and the bereaved families that the investigations continue and that we hope to have better results soon,” he says. the concise tweet of the minister. The publication draws attention because the minister uses his Twitter account to report all his actions as head of that office; in this case It took almost more than 24 hours to know an official position of the Ministry.
On Tuesday, two Police sergeants and a Gacip volunteer were riddled with gunshots by Colombian hit men in the Los Cuchis community, Urubó area, and the institution carries out intense operations to find those responsible for the deaths.
The little information given by the minister was exploited by his political detractors and one of the first to speak out was the senator, Leonardo Loza (MAS), who again He asked for changes in the Police and in that office.
“We express our call for attention, our concern to our Ministry of Government. I hope that in some way some changes can be made (this ministry), but here there is a fact, there are deceased and it has to be clarified and they have to respond”, said the senator from Cochabamba who has marked differences with Carlos Eduardo Del Castillo.
The ex-president, Carlos Mesa also spoke about the death of the police officers and demanded swift action against those responsible. The deputies of the CC of which Mesa is its leader also demanded that Minister Del Castillo take action to find the perpetrators.
“Years of permissiveness and complicit coexistence with drug trafficking installed in Bolivia an organized crime that penetrated the institutions and bleeds to society. My solidarity with the families of the murdered police officers and we demand a quick and exemplary response,” says Carlos Mesa’s tweet.
The leader of Cree, Luis Fernando Camacho, also published a statement from his party and said that these deaths occur around to issues related to drug trafficking and that the ruling party used that theme in its internal conflicts.
“These are the consequences of a government that coexists with and tolerates drug trafficking every day. The press and the opposition have been insistent, drug trafficking has increased seriously, it has infiltrated institutions and even, the Minister of Government himself denounced that there are Assemblymen nationals who have dealings with drug trafficking,” Camacho said in the institutional account of We Believe.