One year after a deadly raid on a supposed right-wing terrorist cell in a hotel in Bolivia's eastern city of Santa Cruz apparently thwarted a conspiracy to launch an armed separatist movement, the affair is back on the front page of the nation's newspapers, with the government charging the plot was overseen and financed by powerful Masonic lodges. Especially named are the lodges Caballeros del Oriente (Knights of the East) and Toborochis (named for a tree that grows in the region).
Pablo Costas, brother of Santa Cruz governor Ruben Costas, is named by the Bolivian press as "brother number one" in los Caballeros del Oriente. Vice-Minister of Interior Gustavo Torrico warned that another lodge linked to eatern Bolivia's "oligarchy," Mariscal de Zepita, may have infiltrated the Bolivian military. President Evo Morales called upon the armed forces to "punish" those within their ranks who have collaborated with the separatists.
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