The Bolivian Minister of Government (Interior), Eduardo del Castillo, revealed that the former anti-drug chief of Bolivia Maximiliano Dávila, detained in a prison in La Paz, had the job of “protecting” a network of drug traffickers who were arrested in Peru and Colombia and who are being investigated by the police. give.
In La Paz, Del Castillo explained the link between Dávila, who was the highest authority of the Special Force to Fight Drug Trafficking (FELCN) during the last year of Evo Morales’ government, with the Bolivian drug trafficker Jorge Roca Suárez and the former mayor of the Bolivian Police Omar Rojas.
According to the investigation in Bolivia, Dávila, who is identified as “person 1”, participated in the February 2020 meetings with Roca Suárez, nicknamed “Techo’e paja”, who “wanted to return to the business” of drug trafficking.
Ignacio Angus Nieto, Rojas’ “right-hand man,” and a buyer identified as DRC of Dominican nationality are also related to that meeting, the minister said.
Build an organization
Roca Suárez returned to Bolivia in 2018 after completing a sentence for drug trafficking 27 years in the United States for drug trafficking in a California prison to serve another sentence in his native country for the same crime.
Del Castillo recalled that Roca Suárez “regained his freedom” on November 29, 2019, when the interim government of former president Jeanine Áñez was instituted, for which he contacted former police officer Rojas, who was “the man of contacts” with others. drug dealers
Dávila fulfilled the role of “providing protection” to the organization that planned to accumulate basic cocaine paste in Bolivia brought from Peru and then carry out the crystallization process of the drug with 97% purity and then export it.
The former anti-drug chief, who must keep preventive detention for six months, is accused of legitimizing illicit profits, he explained.
Del Castillo’s exposure came a day after Dávila accused the minister of seeking to “incriminate” the former president of Morales and of qualifying him as a “petty bourgeois.”
The figure of Morales
The suspicion about this alleged link between the former anti-narcotics chief of Bolivia and Morales emerged from a photograph during the former president’s birthday in 2019 in which both appear together and which has served for the opposition to also request that the former head of state be investigated.
Del Castillo emphasized in his explanation that both the freedom Roca Suárez achieved in 2019 and the meeting he held to rejoin drug trafficking in 2020 occurred when Áñez held the Presidency of the country and not Morales.
Asked about the background that links Dávila with drug trafficking since 2018, the minister replied that they will be assessed later and that for the moment the clearest thing is the activities he carried out in 2020.
Roca Suárez, who in the 1980s was an associate of Colombian drug trafficker Pablo Escobar, was arrested in March of last year when he entered Peru with false identification along with another person.
The ex-major Rojas was also arrested when he entered Colombia with four other subjects, although his main collaborator Angus Nieto managed to escape, “his legal status is unknown” and it is believed that he is in Brazil, the minister said.
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