The Bolivian president kept Del Castillo in his ministry for whom the coca grower leader asked for his head. Everyone in the country wonders if the desire to remove him is due to the official’s efforts to combat drug trafficking
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The Bolivian military, who were very active during the cold war and came to lead 165 coups, of all colors and tendencies, look with little interest at this tension created by Arce‘s denunciations.
Arce’s exhortation comes when former president Morales is acting in Chapare, the coca and drug zone, as a parallel head of state< /b>, with an intense protocol agenda, which included the visit of the former president of the Spanish government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, in May.
Also in May Jorge Arreaza, now former foreign minister of Venezuela, who announced the arrival of Nicolás Maduro in the coca-growing region in September.
The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro suggested last week that it was due to the influence of Morales that the Arce government decided to reduce the volume of gas natural that must be sent to the Brazilian market and sent to Argentina. What the Bolivian government is saying is that the decision to reduce the volume of gas for Brazil by 30% was due to Argentina paying more, or at least offering to pay more. The difference is that Brazil pays 7 dollars per million BTU and Argentina offers 20 dollars, which has raised doubts about the ability of the Argentine government to pay its debts abroad. But Morales’s friendship with the Peronist tendency that governs Argentina is very close.
The relationship between Morales and Arce has become very confusing and at times tense. Both aspire to be candidates in 2025.
Morales is now very active and has decided to cut off the routes that pass through Chapare to Santa Cruz, the area with the greatest agricultural activity, where 70% of the food consumed by Bolivia is produced. And the coca grower is very upset with the government minister, Eduardo del Castillo, 30, who has proposed to fight drug trafficking. It has captured 81 planes that were used to take the drug to Argentina and Brazil and has destroyed laboratories where cocaine sulfate (base paste) is transformed into hydrochloride (white goddess).
Morales says that Del Castillo is acting in coordination with the DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) of the United States, but he has not been able to get Arce to remove him from office. It is the only thing in which Arce does not fulfill the will of the cocalero. Perhaps this is an indication that Del Castillo really has protection from the outside.
The firm action against drug trafficking has revealed that pasta The base that is produced in the VRAEM (Valley of the Ampurrimac, Ene and Mantaro Rivers) area of Peru, reaches the modern laboratories that exist in Bolivia < /b>in an air corridor made up of hundreds of small planes. Every week the government announces the destruction of drug factories or the seizure of shipments that were on the way.
A huge organization, which traffics drugs produced in Bolivia and Peru, sends it to Argentina and Brazil, then, through agreements of the First Command gives Capital of Sao Paulo goes to Europe, it is denounced by the minister Del Castillo.
Meanwhile, the Bolivian military is watched with great attention . And the 2025 election seems a long way off, and uncertain.