Peace. The Bolivian government on Monday denied accusations of having carried out an attack against former President Evo Morales, whose cars were shot at on Sunday, and maintained that the former leader’s caravan had fired on a special anti-drug police force that was carrying out a patrol
The Minister of Government (Interior), Eduardo del Castillo, accused Morales in a press conference of having created a “theater” with the alleged attack against him. “Mr. Morales, no one believes the theater you have performed, but you are going to have to respond to the Bolivian justice system for the crime of attempted murder” against a uniformed man, Del Castillo stated.
Morales claims the government tried to assassinate him when his car was shot at early Sunday, amid political tensions in the Andean country between former presidents Morales and his former socialist ally Luis Arce.
Interior Minister Eduardo del Castillo said at a news conference that the Special Anti-Narcotics Force (ELCN) was conducting standard highway patrol when Morales’ convoy fired at police and ran over an officer.
Morales had said in a radio interview on Sunday that he shot at police after they opened fire.
Morales’ vehicles were suspected of transporting drugs, according to the government.
Morales, for his part, described accusations that authorities were carrying out an anti-drug operation as false.
“If that had been the case, why did his elite military and police team shoot more than 18 times at the vehicles where I was traveling,” he wrote in X.
Del Castillo added that Morales had ordered their vehicles to be burned after the incident, destroying any evidence before it was collected.
“If he had really suffered an attack, it would be in his best interest for these vehicles to be completely intact (…) to see what evidence we could collect,” Del Castillo reported.
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