A general of the Bolivian army was arrested for …

The commander of the military garrison of Cochabamba, General of the Bolivian Army Alfredo Cuéllar, was arrested by the region’s tax authorities for an alleged crime of murder in the massacre in Sacaba on November 15, 2019, where at least eleven people were shot dead.

This was reported by his lawyer, Edwin Paredes, after Cuéllar’s statement to the prosecutor’s office, in which he said he “only performed administrative functions, never made operational decisions”. It is the first arrested for these events, which occurred between September 1 and December 31, 2019, following the protests that erupted after the coup against Evo Morales, whom the opposition and the armed forces did not recognize as the winner of the presidential elections.

At least eleven people have died from gunshot wounds in the central town of Sacaba after members of the police and armed forces blocked the road of a column of supporters of the former President Evo Morales who intended to join Cochabamba to show your support.

Paredes presented in his press release the strategic plan that was applied in the post-electoral conflicts triggered “in accordance with a decree and obviously an order of the Commander-in-Chief (of the armed forces)”.

This plan, Paredes continued, “essentially says lethal weapons should not be used.” After the statement, he was detained by the authorities “because of the risk of flight and obstruction of the investigation, in addition to other elements against the army”, reported the prosecutor Lizeth Martínez, reports “La Razón “.

Bolivian President Luis Arce assured Monday that in Sacaba and Senkata “there was a massacre against all those who dared to respond to the de facto regime of Jeanine Áñez”.

For its part, members of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (GIEI-Bolivia)) They received this Tuesday from the President of the Senate, Andrónico Rodríguez, the documentation compiled by those close to the massacre to help them investigate the events.

The IACHR group of experts began its investigation into the events on Monday, although in a preliminary report it described the crackdown on Sacaba, Cochabamba, and Senkata, in La Paz, as “massacres” in the protests. after the resignation of Evo Morales. . More than 25 people died and a hundred injured.