Bolivia captures 30 cartel members and ends its role as narco "sanctuary"
Minister Fernando Aramayo highlighted the capture of Marset and 30 drug traffickers from different cartels. Bolivia ceases to be a refuge for organised crime, according to the government.
Aramayo: Bolivia breaks with its image as regional drug trafficking refuge
The Minister of the Presidency, Fernando Aramayo Carrasco, stated that Bolivia has captured around 30 members of different international cartels so far this year, including Uruguayan Sebastián Marset and a PCC leader detained last weekend, according to correodelsur.com.
"These captures being made are not only that of Marset. Throughout what we have done so far this year, we have captured around 30 members of different cartels," Aramayo declared in an interview with Fides radio.
The minister highlighted that the operations were designed, managed and executed entirely by Bolivian national institutions, in coordination with other countries, and that none cost human lives.
"All the operations to date have truly been processes with no cost in lives, very carefully thought out, with strategies very well carried forward. All done in Bolivia, made in Bolivia," he emphasised.
Aramayo argued that these actions are part of the exercise of national sovereignty, with the participation of the Police and other state institutions. According to the minister, the concrete results help restore citizen confidence.
"Bolivia is ceasing to be a sanctuary for organised crime because there is a clear political decision and concrete results," he remarked.
The government indicates that the fight against narco-terrorism responds to a state policy aimed at tackling illicit activities through regionally coordinated operations, but directed from Bolivia.
Source: Google News BO — Crime