- Evo Morales affirms that the accusations are part of a “political persecution” against him to prevent him from running as a presidential candidate in the 2025 elections. Main photo: EFE
The Attorney General of Bolivia, Juan Lanchipa, reported on Monday, October 7, that he summoned former president and leader of the ruling party Evo Morales (2006-2019) to provide a statement on a case of alleged “trafficking of minors” and “statutory rape.” which must be carried out on October 10 in the Tarija region.
Rape.
It is a sexual crime that occurs when an adult has sexual relations with a minor who has not reached the age of legal consent. The victim gives consent for the act based on deception, blackmail or abuse of superiority over that person.
“The summons of the three people accused in this case, among them Mr. Evo Morales, and the parents of the (alleged) victim have been arranged for Thursday, October 10 at the departmental prosecutor’s office of Tarija,” Lanchipa indicated in statements. to local media.
Morales was also accused by the Minister of Justice, César Siles, of being involved in an investigation for the possible “rape” of a minor, with whom he would have had a child, and for creating a network of young people between 14 and 15 years old to have at his disposal during his Presidency, which he called “Generation Evo.”
The complaint to which Siles refers also says that the parents of the alleged victim “profited” from her by giving her to the former president in exchange for favors.
Last Wednesday, the departmental prosecutor of Tarija, Sandra Gutiérrez, surprised the country with the complaint that she was fired from her position by the attorney general for wanting to execute an arrest warrant against Evo Morales and revealed the case of “human trafficking.” that involves him.
But said arrest warrant against the former president was stopped by a Santa Cruz judge.
However, a judge ordered the reinstatement of Gutiérrez in her position and Lanchipa confirmed this day that prosecutor Gutiérrez regained her position.
Evo calls the accusations “political persecution”
Evo Morales affirms that the accusations are part of a “political persecution” against him to prevent him from running as a presidential candidate in the 2025 elections.
“#Lawfare is the new Condor Plan: they no longer murder with bullets, they now promote moral murders through sentences against popular leaders. They initiated four judicial processes against us simultaneously, all with forced actions to seek our apprehension,” Morales wrote on October 7 in a publication on the social network X.
The Puebla Group, a political and academic forum made up of representatives of the Latin American political left, expressed its concern about the alleged “lawfare campaign” due to the case opened against the former Bolivian president.
“Despite all the mediation efforts carried out by a group of colleagues from the Puebla Group between former President Evo Morales and President Luis Arce, their legitimate differences now seem to be transferred to the judicial courts,” the Puebla Group said in a statement. .
“Just as with Lula and Cristina (Fernández) they will seek to outlaw our participation in the following electoral processes to pave the way for right-wing governments. Just as with brother Rafael Correa, this action comes from betrayal,” Morales said.
The investigation and accusations arise in the midst of a long battle between Morales and President Luis Arce for control of the ruling Movement towards Socialism (MAS) and the Bolivian Executive.
The complaint for human trafficking was filed on September 26, three days after Evo Morales, after a 187-kilometer march through the Bolivian highlands, gave Arce an ultimatum, saying that “if he wants to continue governing” he must dismiss his ministers, in an action that was described by the government as an attempted “coup d’état.”
The ongoing investigation against Evo Morales
The Bolivian authorities They confirmed an ongoing investigation against the former president of Bolivia Evo Morales for the crime of sexual abuse against a minor, in addition to a case of human trafficking that occurred eight years ago, when he was still president of that nation.
According to the Bolivian Minister of Justice, César Siles, the victim of sexual abuse would have had a daughter with Morales, as confirmed by a birth certificate of the minor.
“As a result of that rape, the mother gave birth to another girl and the father recognized on a birth certificate is Mr. Evo Morales Ayma,” said Siles during a press conference in La Paz on October 3.
With information from EFE
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