Torrico brothers arrested in Cochabamba over alleged conspiracy linked to Evo Morales
The Government presented Alain and Saul Torrico as organisers of a destabilisation plan. Human bone remains were also found at their residence.
Arrest in Cochabamba: Government accuses Torrico brothers of planning violence with support from former president
Alain and Saul Torrico Flores, two brothers resident in Cochabamba, were arrested and presented by authorities as alleged organisers of a destabilisation plan scheduled to begin in November, according to El Deber.
Government minister Marco Oviedo stated during the presentation that investigations revealed direct communications between Alain Torrico and former president Evo Morales. "In this operation we have obtained communications between this gentleman Alain Torrico and Mr Evo Morales and they were talking about preparations to generate mourning, violence, death among Bolivians," Oviedo declared, adding that following those contacts Torrico received additional telephone instructions.
Alain Torrico had participated in a recent rally of Morales supporters in Lauca Ñ. However, the leadership of Evo Pueblo—Feliciano Vegamonte and Vicente Choque—reacted swiftly and denied that Torrico belonged to their organisation, linking him instead with the Coordinadora Nacional por la Patria (Conalpa), a group associated with the ruling party.
The departmental prosecutor of Cochabamba, Eddy Ordoñez, who accompanied Oviedo at the presentation, revealed that at the residence where Torrico lived explosives were found, as well as bone remains of a female person. "We were surprised to find these bone remains," Ordoñez stated, informing that the prosecution opened a parallel investigation to determine the circumstances of the death. The Police exhibited two rolls of fuse, dynamite cartridges and hardened anfo.
The sister of the arrested men came to the defence of her relatives and explained that their father, a 90-year-old elderly man, was a miner and had a cooperative. According to her account, the explosives—anfo, dynamite cartridges and two antique disused weapons—have been in the family residence for years as part of the legacy of that mining activity.
Source: El Deber