Perpetrators of racist attacks and attacks, particularly against indigenous women and members of the Movimiento al Socialismo during the riots that led to the coup in November 2019, Yasir Molina, brothers Mario Antonio and Fabio Alejandro Bascopé, and Milena Soto vote as defendants in the ordinary courts match this file.
The Cochabamba-based extremist organization rose to prominence after the October 2019 parliamentary elections.
Then, with protests and violent actions, they supported the propaganda matrix of an alleged, unproven fraud promoted by the Organization of American States and later imposed by the de facto government of Jeanine Áñez after the resignation of President Evo Morales.
It was the RJC motorcyclists who ran over and humiliated hundreds of indigenous women taking part in a march on Cochabamba demanding respect for democracy on the eve of the 2019 coup.
His troops also kidnapped the mayor of Vinto, Patricia Arce, on November 6, 2019, cut her hair and then led her barefoot and pushed her through the streets while insulting and dousing her with red paint, filming acts and posting them on the internet. .
During the de facto regime (2019-2020), these shock groups committed numerous acts of violence against members of social movements and public buildings and property of members of the Movement for Socialism – Political Instrument for Peoples’ Sovereignty (MAS-IPSP ). .
The Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI), in its 2019 report investigating the violence and massacres, classified the RJC and the Cruceñista Youth Union, the operational arm of the Pro-Santa Cruz Committee, as paramilitaries.
The squads, commanded by Molina, toured the city of Cochabamba on motorcycles and attacked anyone they identified as members of the MAS-IPSP or simply for wearing indigenous clothing, particularly women wearing polleras (typical skirts).
Last November, Molina pledged that he would tell the truth about what happened during the 2019 crisis in order to find “the real masterminds,” as part of a shortcut.
This Monday’s hearing comes a week before the arrival of a GIEI commission in Bolivia to analyze compliance with 36 recommendations left by the Bolivian judiciary in the conclusions of its report, including the dissolution of the RJC.
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