“First, we want to emphasize that it is a very serious and scandalous fact of support of the Argentine government by the then President Mauricio Macri, against the government of Evo Morales, and apparently, to the seditious forces,” Frederic said this morning in statements to CNN Radio.De this way, he referred to the complaint of the neighboring country made last Thursday by the Foreign Minister of Bolivia, Rogelio Mayta, regarding alleged shipments of war materiel to that nation to support the coup that put Jeanine Áñez in power.
At the president’s direction, I ordered the heads of the Federal Forces to report, within the next 72 hours, the responsibilities in sending anti-titled or other police material to the Plurinational State of Bolivia to collaborate with the coup d’état of November 2019. – Sabina Frederic (@SabinaFrederic)
July 9, 2021
Frederic revealed today that “there is information within the Gendarmerie, which we were able to identify in these last 48 hours, that would be confirming the shipment of these munitions” and clarified that although at first there was talk of “40,000 ammunition, there are 70,000, that is, almost double” indicated in one of the notes found.” For now we have the possibility of confirming that it is highly likely that this has happened,” he added after assuring that “all state agencies are now working hard to go all the way and that here those responsible, especially those who are still active in the public service, assume responsibility and pay the cost,” said the head of the Security Portfolio.In addition, Frederic remarked that “many state agencies had to intervene regularly or irregularly” for the shipment of this material during the government of Together for Change, and cited among them the Ministry of Defense, Foreign Affairs, Customs, the Ministry of Justice, and Security.” Therefore it is very difficult to think that these actions were not known to former President Macri,” said Frederic.On the other hand Frederic stressed that there are notes, where “in the first one the temporary departure of pistols, rifles, bulletproof vests, night visors, and 1300 antitumulto cartridges is requested.” That first note corresponds to a note sent by the Bolivian police to Argentina in January 2020 that somehow certifies that this material arrived, and that material accompanied the Alacrán group, which are the 11 gendarmerie troops that Bullrich authorized to leave the country,” the minister said. On the other hand, he maintained that there is “a second note of November 12, 2019 where the Gendarmerie, by order of (Gerardo) Otero, who was the General Commander at the time, requests authorization for the temporary shipment to Bolivia of 70,000 antitumulto cartridges, 600 antitumulto grenades and 100 bottles of pepper spray,” the official said. It is clear that there is a relatively authorized weapons circuit and there is another, which are these 70,000 rounds of ammunition that are of the same type that appears in the thank you note of the Bolivian Air Force, which has a circuit that for now we do not understand well,” he explained. However, he added that everything “seems quite irregular” and pointed out that these shipments “involved several state agencies.” On the other hand, the official also considered it “absurd” that the veracity of these notes is denied because “that circulated through the usual digital file processing system, which the same one that the Macri government left enabled.”
