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The Chapare Cartel is a Bolivian criminal organization dedicated to drug trafficking and human trafficking that operates in the Chapare region. The cartel currently has strong connections with the political party of the Movement for Socialism[1][2] [3]. For all these reasons, the Interamerican Institute for Democracy described the government of Evo Morales as that of a narco-state [4]. esta visión es compartida por el investigador Diego Ayo de la fundación Vicente Pazos Kanki[5]. Currently the structure of the cartel is unknown. According to the Peruvian journalist Jayme Bayly, the head of the cartel would be the former president of Bolivia, Evo Morales[6][7].

chronology of the cartel and conformation of the narco-state

The Chapare Cartel has its origins in the merger of six Federaciones Cocaleras del Trópico, in the región of Chapare. This federations are dedicated to the production and commercialization of coca leaves, the oldest being the Federación Especial de Colonizadores de Chimoré, founded in 1964[8].

In 1996, a then unknown Evo Morales became president of the coordinating committee of the six federations of the tropics[9].

A boost that this organization would gain would be with the assumption of Evo Morales to the presidency of the country with his first term, which began in 2006.

In 2008, Evo Morales decided to expel the DEA from the country[10].

The Chapare region had long been declared by the Special Force for the Fight against Narcotrafficking (FELCN) as a "red zone for drug trafficking"[11].

In 2010, Evo Morales admitted to the British BBC news network that drug trafficking had permeated all levels of the state, although he accused the United States of this, without proofs[12].

On July 29, Valentín Mejillones, Evo Morales' personal priest, was arrested for possession of 350 kg of drugs[13].

n 2011, the General of the Bolivian Police, René Sanabria Oropeza and former anti-drug chief assigned by Evo Morales, is accused[14] and sentenced in the United States for drug trafficking[15]. That same year, Morales declared his fear that Sanabria would reveal MAS names in exchange for negotiating his sentence[16].

In 2012, the Brazilian magazine Veja accused Evo Morales and his then minister Juan Ramón Quintana, of providing raw material for the production of drugs that were destined for Brazil[17][18][19]

In 2012, former senator Roger Pinto asked Brazil for political asylum for fear of an attack on his personal security and for having "evidence of corruption and links with drug trafficking at the highest levels of the government of President Evo Morales"[20].

In September 2013, a ghost town exclusively built for drug production was discovered in Oruro and the media points responsability to the government. [21]

That same year, in November, Luis Cutipa Salva, then a substitute deputy of the MAS was arrested for diverting 45,000 tons of coca leaf to drug trafficking hot spots[22].

In September 2015, former Bolivian businessman José Luis Sejas Rosales is arrested for an international arrest warrant for drug trafficking in Argentina[23]. Sejas Rosales was a former advisor to Yacimientos Petrolifos Fiscales Bolivianos[24].





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  7. ^ "Jaime Bayly: «Evo Morales le vendía cocaína a $2,500 dólares el kilo al Chapo Guzmán»" (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 October 2020. {{cite web}}: Text "VIDEO" ignored (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ^ "LAS FEDERACIONES DEL TRÓPICO DE COCHABAMBA EN EL PROCESO DE CONSTRUCCIÓN DE UN INSTRUMENTO POLÍTICO (1992-1999)" (PDF) (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 October 2020. {{cite web}}: line feed character in |title= at position 46 (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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