They rescue Umopar police officers, who were held in Ivirgarzama

The Special Force to Fight Drug Trafficking (Felcn) reported this Friday that the troops were rescued of the Mobile Rural Patrol Unit (Umopar) who were held by people related to former President Evo Morales in the town of Ivirgarzama, which belongs to the Cochabamba municipality of Puerto Villarroel.

“The police officers, who were detained in the municipality of Puerto Villarroel, Carrasco province of the department of Cochabamba, who were They were carrying out drug trafficking interdiction tasks at the Umopar Ivirgarzama outpost, they were exfiltrated,” says an official statement.

On Thursday night, the troops reported through a video that they were being held by community members in their facilities in Ivirgarzama, since last Sunday, without food and water.

The anti-drug force explained that the troops are now “safe” and warned of malicious people who They intend to “distort events to damage the image of the institution and the country.”