Police chief believe effective were lynched in Uncía by revenge drug trafficking

La Paz, Abi
The director of the Special Force against Drug Trafficking (FELCN), Cnl Felix Molina, said Friday it is assumed that the four soldiers lynched 12 days ago ayllus Saca Saca and Cala Cala, in the municipality of Uncía ran that sort of revenge from drug traffickers in the area.

The police chief reported that days before the bloody fact, a native leader involved with drug trafficking was arrested in a drug operation and vowed revenge on the cops.

According to information still unclear, police Alcócer Nelson Casano, Palluni Miguel Ramos, Ruben Cruz and Esteban Aruquipa Alave Arias, who were apparently removed from his jurisdiction, were executed by community members who allegedly mistook them for thieves and extortionists.

"The FELCN investigates the warning made by the leader who would retaliate against any policeman who enters their community. So, we do not doubt that were the result of death or lynching of our four comrades," remarked the director of the FELCN .

Molina said that a week before the slaying of four police officers of the Directorate for Prevention and Vehicle Theft (Diprove), a patrol of the Special Force against Drug Trafficking (FELCN) ventured into the area and managed to apprehend a leader farmer, who owned two factories of cocaine, one running and one standby.

He said that this ruling, now being held in preventive Kantumarca prison for the crime of drug trafficking, belongs to a community near the place where a group originating tortured and lynched the four policemen.

The Director admitted that the ayllu FELCN North of Potosi are step towards the border with Chile, a route that is used by backpackers and vehicles to transport cocaine to the neighboring country.

"True, we must affirm that there is cocaine in that area, but traffic and we are to perform tasks of interdiction, since it is a route for drug entry into Chile and Bolivia chemicals," he said.