Did the de facto government of Bolivia launch a plan of militarization and forced eradication in the Tropic of Cochabamba?

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Leaders affirm that the objective of the Armed Forces is to eradicate the area's corals, on US orders.

 

Bolivian Armed Forces (FFAA) troops entered Thursday on board eight buses, escorted by three armored tanker-type vehicles, to the Chapare region, in the Tropic of Cochabamba, to supposedly carry out relay activities and parachuting practices.

According to the commander of the Ninth Division of the Army, Colonel Javier Espinoza Daza, it is a convoy with approximately 300 students from the Special Troop Instruction Center (CITE) that arrived for skydiving courses, "as has been the case for at least three years "in this area.

However, days ago, the deposed president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, rejected this claim and denounced that the de facto government will start next Monday a plan to eradicate the area's corals, on US orders, "by land the successful model of social control weighted by the UN and the European Union. "

Similarly, Morales warned this Friday that the military is preparing to repress the inhabitants of the tropics, one of its biggest political bastions, before the marches convened by coca growers in different cities of Bolivia on January 22.

"The de facto government says that militarization of the Tropic seeks to relieve troops, then that it is for citizen security, and, finally, for a parachuting course. They do not know how to hide the war plan to repress," Morales wrote.

After being consulted in this regard, the Minister of Defense, Luis Fernando López, said that the interim government does not need anyone's permission to enter Chapare.

"Nobody can tell us that we have to warn, communicate, it is a dare. We do not have to ask anyone for permission and we will never do it. It is not so, we are simply fulfilling a tactical, strategic work, of the end of a parachuting course, nothing more, "López said from La Paz.

However, coca growers reject the military presence in the area. "I feel that it is an act of provocation, insult and intimidation (...) We call serenity to the brothers of the Tropic area. We denounce that the Government is intimidating in the streets," the cocalero leader Leonardo Loza said in a press conference. .

For Loza, it is contradictory that the de facto government speaks of peace and, at the same time, "send tanks to the tropics", so he warned that "if something happens, it will be entirely the responsibility" of Jeanine Añez and his team.

According to the leader, it is an act of intimidation before the proximity of January 22, day for which mobilizations are enlisted nationwide to celebrate the Plurinational State Day, and listen to the message that the deposed president Evo Morales will give from Argentina .

Since 1985, Morales is an advocate of coca cultivation, when he served as the union leader of coca growers in the Chapare region. The ex-president protects that item as part of the cultural identity of the Aymara Indians.