Overview

• Demonstrators walked from Plaza de Mayo to the National Congress to honor Morena Verdi, Brenda Del Castillo and Lara Gutiérrez and to demand accountability.
• Confrontations broke out near Congress, with stone-throwing reported and police intervening after journalist Roberto Funes Ugarte said he was assaulted.
• Relatives thanked the turnout and urged officials to act, with the victims’ grandfather calling for justice and opportunities for young people.
• Investigators have at least 12 people detained in connection with the case; four suspects—Miguel Ángel Villanueva Silva, Daniela Ibarra, Andrés Maximiliano Parra and Magalí Celeste González Guerrero—were charged with aggravated homicide and declined to testify.
• The Security Ministry said a recent suspect was captured in Villazón, Bolivia, as prosecutors pursue evidence that the killings were a narco ‘aleccionador’ attack reportedly shared in a closed social-media group.