La Paz--Two men accused of involvement in a suspected foreign mercenary plot to kill Bolivian President Evo Morales were sentenced to nearly six years in prison.
Attorney General Ramiro Guerrero said Mario Tadic of Croatia and Elod Toaso, a Hungarian, were sentenced to five years and 10 months behind bars after being convicted of "armed uprising against the security and sovereignty of the state."
Tadic and Toaso are accused of belonging to a band of mercenaries led by Bolivian-Croatian national Eduardo Rozsa, a veteran of the Balkan wars of the early 1990s.
Rozsa was shot dead by Bolivian police in 2009 in the eastern city of Santa Cruz along with Irishman Michael Dwyer and Romanian-Hungarian Arpad Magyarosi.
The Bolivian government said the men had been hired by a wealthy businessman in the region to launch a revolt and the assassination of leftist leader Morales.
AFP
