Boliviagate: Argentine documents show far larger post-coup weapons shipment than previously known

[Judi Lynn]

4. Macri, Ex-Ministers Charged For Arms Sale to Bolivian Coup Govt

The Argentine government has accused Macri, three of his ministers and other former officials of having sent arms to Bolivia in November 2019 to consolidate the overthrow of Evo Morales. | Photo: Twitter/@AndyVermaut

Published 16 July 2021

The irregular shipment of arms to the de facto government of Jeanine Añez by the Argentinean administration of Mauricio Macri just after the coup d'état will be settled in court, after the former president was indicted this Friday by a prosecutor in Buenos Aires.

It was the prosecutor Claudio Navas Rial who accepted this Friday the investigation of the complaint filed by the Government for the smuggling of weapons to Bolivia in November 2019 and listed as defendants in the case the former president Mauricio Macri and his then ministers Patricia Bullrich (Security) and Oscar Aguad (Defense).

Likewise, the former director of the Civil Guard Gerardo José Otero, the former director of logistics of the Civil Guard Rubén Carlos Yavorski and the former director of operations of that force, Carlos Miguel Recalde, and even the then Argentine ambassador in La Paz, Normando Álvarez García, are implicated in the complaint.

Although the document requests the first measures of evidence, which include requests for reports to the Argentine Government and Bolivia, the prosecutor did not include, however, other measures that the Government had requested in its complaint, such as a report of the calls between the former president and the other accused in order to make a cross-check.

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