{"id":10185,"date":"2021-11-01T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.traductoresunitedbolivia.com\/?p=10185"},"modified":"2021-11-12T14:52:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T14:52:11","slug":"protection-and-cover-up-for-las-londras-assailants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.traductoresunitedbolivia.com\/en\/2021\/11\/01\/protection-and-cover-up-for-las-londras-assailants\/","title":{"rendered":"PROTECTION AND COVER-UP FOR LAS LONDRAS ASSAILANTS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Amalia Pando – Journalist<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

1 November 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PROTECTION AND COVER-UP FOR LAS LONDRAS ASSAILANTS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

CRIMINALS IN POWER<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Dulfredo Su\u00e1rez do Santos is identified as the ringleader of the gang of land-grabbers that operates in Guarayos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The ringleader of the band of land-grabbers<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

For a case prior to Las Londras, he was arrested and released. He had threatened the prosecutors of San Juli\u00e1n, Grobert Vega, and of Guarayos, Basilio Villca, with their dismissal and so it happened, without further explanation the dismissal memorandum came to both of them, and the judge, out of fear, only gave him a month in Palmasola [prision].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They also run the National Institute of Agrarian Reform (INRA). After taking over any property, using firearms and dynamites, the INRA Regional Director, Adalberto Rojas, hands them the concession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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INRA Regional Director with the land-grabbers<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Rojas, the INRA Regional Director, was sharing lunch with the assailants in Las Londras on October 29, a day after the massive kidnapping of four policemen, journalists, and producers who, in addition to torture, suffered gunshot wounds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And they also manage the Police who gave them 72 hours to escape and leave the camp where drugs were possibly manufactured. When the 200 policemen sent from Santa Cruz arrived in Las Londras, what a surprise, they did not find anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Only one rooster was left in the abandoned camp<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Dulfredo Suarez do Santos and his group of land-grabbers and kidnappers are part of the Federation of Interculturalists and the Confederation of Peasants, social instruments of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) Government. They are the Government. This explains the protection and impunity with which they act. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The use of people with criminal records in \u201ccollectives\u201d to beat up and murder opposition members is a \u201cChavista\u201d practice that the Arce Government is copying. They are the ones who are leading the armed land-grabbing assaults, but also the prison riots against the \u201cprivileges\u201d of Jeanine A\u00f1ez, as seen in the last hours by the official television channel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Revolt in San Pedro prison<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In addition, this Government is denounced for tolerating (and who knows what else) the powerful and dangerous Brazilian drug trafficking cartel, the First Capital Command (PCC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus, it is understood why in four days the Government would not have detained any armed assailant, but it did apprehend Adolfo Ch\u00e1vez at the Viru Viru airport, former president of the Confederation of Indigenous Peoples of Bolivia (CIDOB), the organization of the native peoples of the East that was seized this Sunday by the MAS. People that marched against the illegal occupation and that obviously the Government did not want to listen to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This Monday, Ch\u00e1vez was sentenced in record time to five years in prison for an alleged crime in the Indigenous Fund. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The armed militias used by the land-grabbers are a reality in the current Government, a disastrous component for the rule of law, and we dedicate the following subtitles to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Armed groups in Las Londras<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

LAS LONDRAS AND THE MAS ARMED MILITIAS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

They were exposed. We saw them in action, they exist and they are the most dangerous threat to the lives of those who go out to protest, for those who defend their property, for those who practice journalism, for anyone who crosses their path. The armed groups of the MAS are the true gravediggers of Democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LAS LONDRAS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It is a farm property located in Guarayos taken over by the interculturalists of Evo Morales who in Santa Cruz have the outposts of the MAS in San Juli\u00e1n and Yapacan\u00ed. From there they head out, organize, get supplies, and, now we can say with certainty, they arm themselves to illegally occupy the lands of native peoples, businessmen, and nature reserves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OCTOBER 28<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to short videos and the testimony of ATB cameraman, Percy Su\u00e1rez, the country was able to see an armed militia in action, a very well-armed militia. You had to see to believe. It is the copy of the drug trafficking security groups that operate in Mexico, Colombia, and the Chapare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They have no mercy. Using gunfire bursts and striking with rifle butts, they ambushed and kidnapped 17 people, including journalists, four policemen, and the owner and employees of the farm property. They all ended up face down in a shed, where they were tortured and beaten. The worst part was suffered by the employer and his workers, who suffered repeated blows with rifle butts and withering kicks. They are miraculously alive. Suddenly the kidnappers were ordered to release them. They had suffered seven hours of terror. Percy Suarez\u2019s voice breaks when he remembers those eternal hours in which he entrusted himself to God while death haunted that shed smelling of blood. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

His camera with a bullet entry and exit mark will be the proof of this criminal episode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Caricature by Abecor<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Cynicism hurts too. The next day one of the kidnappers told a local television station: \u201cIt was a misunderstanding, we scared them, there was no kidnapping.\u201d Backing up this version, the Police Commander, Johnny Aguilera, defined what happened as an \u201cALTERCATION\u201d and consequently assured that no one was going to be evicted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aguilera responds to the Minister [of Government], Del Castillo, the latter to President Arce, and the latter -in turn- to Evo Morales. Hence, there is no doubt that illegal land occupation and irregular armed groups are a Government policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GOVERNMENT POLICY<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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David Choquehuanca, in June in a meeting with the interculturalists of Santa Cruz<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In June of this year, when there was a clamor in Santa Cruz to stop the illegal occupation of lands in four municipalities of Chiquitania, Vice-President David Choquehuanca met with the interculturalists and there endorsed and promoted the illegal taking of land. On that occasion, he said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is not possible for the lands to be seized by a few. We have sworn to recover our land and territory… Those of us who have roots are the majority in this country. We are the owners of this land and territory.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With this discourse, the interculturalists obtained the right to occupy whatever land they wanted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Interculturalists of Chiquitania announce that they will organize self-defense groups<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

At a press conference, the leader of the Federation of Interculturalists of Chiquitania, Oscar Castro said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are organizing a defense group and we will defend ourselves, even if we have to die.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And this October 28 we saw them in action. They were not so willing to die, but rather to kill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

28% of the cleared land belongs to peasants and interculturalists of the MAS, that is, 24.8 million hectares, according to the Santa Cruz Governorship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The illegal occupation of lands also affects Cochabamba, where at least 50 properties have been affected in recent months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

COX WANTS TO BEAT ABOUT THE BUSH<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the Vice-Minister of Government, Nelson Cox, the irregular groups that the Government has to dismantle are the Cochala Resistance and the Cruce\u00f1ista Youth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These two organizations were protagonists of the peaceful resistance to the electoral fraud of 2019 and had to face the violent offensive of the armed groups of the MAS that tried to siege cities to starve millions of citizens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI), issued a report on Human Rights in Bolivia that recommends that the Government dismantle the irregular groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They threatened to set fire to the Human Rights Assembly<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Cox ignored the existence of violent groups of the MAS, those who wear lluch\u2019us or red ponchos, the self-organized groups that he himself armed in K\u2019ara K\u2019ara, those existing in Chapare, and now -evidently- in Santa Cruz. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, he attacked a dozen activists and leaders of the Cochala Resistance until they were detained and prosecuted. Mario Tonchy Bascop\u00e9 was sentenced to 10 years in prison on a fabricated drug trafficking charge. The same has happened in Cuba with a participant in the protests of July 11, they also gave him 10 years in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mario Bascop\u00e9, detained, tortured for 18 hours, and sentenced to 10 years in prison.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

So, on the one hand, they use the most vicious repression against opposition organizations while gearing up armed militias of the MAS, which will have the task of violently crushing protests against the Government and, in return, have carte blanche to commit misdeeds. Since they were given weapons, they are going to use them in kidnappings, assaults, and illegal occupation of lands and other properties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SELF-CONFESSED AUTHOR<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I refer to the evidence, judge. That piece of evidence is the video of Evo Morales recorded in January 2020 in Buenos Aires. Openly, Evo Morales gave the MAS the task of organizing armed militias, as in Venezuela, he said. With that public instruction, the denial of a democratic leader was shown as it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Evo Morales<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Already in October and November 2019, the MAS armed social organizations with clubs and used them as riot squads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But also in that period of time, trained, structured, and armed groups came to light. They carried out operations in Montero, Sacaba, Senkata, and Vila Vila. But these operations were insufficient. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evo wants more, as in Venezuela where in 2017 they killed 163 students who protested in the streets against the Maduro dictatorship, and in Nicaragua where in 2018 they took the lives of around 400 young protesters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The \u201ccollectives\u201d in Venezuela claimed dozens of victims killed.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In Las Londras we have seen that Evo Morales has moved forward with his purpose of organizing armed people who will come out to defend him at all costs, as in Venezuela.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New York Times described the actions of Maduro\u2019s \u201ccollectives\u201d as follows: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe motorcyclists came with a loud noise; they were a phalanx of red jackets with dark clothes. Some had their faces covered as they revved their engines in front of the protesters. They threw tear gas bombs to disperse the crowd and, according to witnesses, they then drew their pistols and open fire.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Police brutality in Venezuela<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

We have entered a very violent phase of the political struggle, where the undemocratic side has all the strength of the State and also with these groups that allow the Government to carry out criminal acts of which it will always wash its hands of these matters, as it already happened in the La Paz Coca Leaf Producers Association (ADEPCOCA) conflict, and now in Las Londras.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Source:<\/strong> http:\/\/www.cabildeodigital.com\/2021\/11\/proteccion-y-encubrimiento-los.html<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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