Morales assassination plot thwarted

Bolivian vice president, Alvaro Garcia, reported that a network of foreign and Bolivian terrorists planning to assassinate the head of state, Evo Morales and other leaders, has been dismantled in the Santa Cruz department.Authorities found sniper rifles and C-4 explosives as well as plans and documents for the action, the press in the government headquarters were told.According to Garcia the neutralized group was present in public events headed by Morales and followed the presidential caravans to organize the assassination and explosive were ready for use, he warned.According to the vice president of the Republic, who was also a target of the network, the executive would assign all the resources possible to find the perpetrators the conspiracy.We will not rest until several questions are answered, he told national and foreign journalists.

Garcia informed that there are assuredly other terrorist cells organized to eliminate Bolivian leaders and promote instability in the nation.

We must identify the ramifications, find out who planned the actions, who brought Croatians and Irish persons to this country, who contracted them, who paid them, who set them up in Santa Cruz, who armed them and who supplied information, he emphasized.

During talks with reporters the ad interim president, Morales is in Venezuelan for the ALBA summit, he reported the death of three terrorists this morning and the arrest of two others.Through intelligence information we mobilized the best police forces to neutralize the network, an operative that incluided confiscation of an arsenal in the Fexpocruz fair area, he informed.

Prensa Latina