April 4, 2023, 10:50 PM
April 4, 2023, 10:50 PM
The Yungo leaders who participated in the taking and burning of the illegal coca market on September 8 total 24 people, the La Paz Prosecutor’s Office has six of them with different sentences, as pre-trial detainees or detainees at their homes. The cocalero leaders of Adepcoca decided to travel to their towns and not go to La Paz to avoid being apprehended.
“It is not one person who is accused, there are several: Freddy Machicado Vázquez, Julio César Apaza Tintaya, Rosalba Vargas Mamani, Reynaldo Laura Laredo, Erlin Pari Pampa, Roly Aguilera Silva, Juan Elías Cocarico Santander, Gonzalo Lupaca Pari, Marina Gudelia Botitano, Santos Carlos Choque Mamani, Isaac Rolando Miranda, Noé Canaza Félix , Omar Harold Eduardo Pino, Jhery Chincha Alarcón, Porfirio Rivero Rivero, Osman Patzy Silva, Gabriel Mamani Amato, Fidel Villasante Chambi, Armin Mallea Machaca, Pedro Luis Canaza Vargas, Wilson Luna Noriega, Carlos Juvenal Palomino, Diego Capuahapaza Ari, Mariluz Ortiz Pinto ”, recited the prosecutor, Bladimir Bolivar, at the hearing of the leader, César Apaza.
On September 8 of last year thousands of cocaleros They arrived at the seat of government after a five-day walk, demanding the closure of the illegal coca market that was opened and run by the leader Arnold Alanes, who enjoys the protection of the Government. The cocaleros confronted Alanez and they ended up burning the illegal marketshortly after the apprehension of the cocaleros would begin.
Of the list of 24 defendants, those who are in detention are: the cocalero executive, Freddy Machicado Vázquez; Julio César Apaza Tintaya, Gonzalo Lupaca Pari and Porfirio Rivero Rivero; while the leaders Rosalba Vargas Mamani and Marina Gudelia Botitano have house arrest, but must travel every Monday to sign the attendance book of the La Paz Prosecutor’s Office.
The Adepcoca leadership had reported that there were 15 peasants persecuted For justice, however, the prosecutor named 24 leaders who are wanted and must be apprehended, said Bolívar, who described the investigation as “complex.”
According to the Yungueño peasants themselves, most of those named by the prosecutor decided to enter their towns and not leave those places, in other cases they traveled to the interior of the country and at least three of them managed to leave for Brazil.
