Bolivians arrest two more men in ‘murder plot’ case

AS the family of the Tipperary man accused of plotting to murder the President of Bolivia prepare to bury him later today, it has emerged two more men have been arrested in the south American country in relation to the alleged plot.

The two men, one identified as Juan Carlos Gueder Bruno, a 48-year-old activist with a militant neo-fascist group based in Santa Cruz, the other an unnamed Paraguayan national, were arrested separately by Bolivian forces. Juan Carlos’ niece told how six men stopped her uncle’s car as he went to pick up his children from school with his wife, Martha.

Alejandra Ibañez said: “They jumped out of a white Land Cruiser that cut up my uncle’s car.