The defense of the former president of Bolivia Evo Morales (2006-2019) maintained this Thursday that there is a “clear political persecution” against the Bolivian leader by the Government of Luis Arceafter a prosecutor reported that she was dismissed for investigating and ordering arrest for alleged human trafficking and smuggling.
In statements to EFE, one of Morales’ lawyers, Orlando Ceballosstated that “there has been no written complaint”, nor oral, and accused the Government of being “autocratic”, “police” and of using “judicial instances and the Public Ministry for the sole purpose of legal elimination.”
“This is a clear political persecution, it is the vendetta for the great ‘March to Save Bolivia’ and today Evo Morales finds himself, in terms of his rights and guarantees, enormously threatened”he stated.
The aforementioned march was a 187-kilometer walk led by Morales towards La Paz to demand that the Government pay attention to problems such as the shortage of dollars and fuel, but also to recognize a party congress in which he was named by his followers as “candidate.” “unique” for the 2025 general elections.
Ceballos considered that the Executive “is making horrible use of the coercive and coercive mechanisms of the State” and insisted that the former president “does not have the slightest guarantee that his rights” are respected by Justice or the Prosecutor’s Office.
According to the former magistrate, although the arrest warrant against Morales “has been rendered ineffective” by instruction from a judge in the eastern city of Holy Crossthere is “a dangerous shift in the police state, in the police government that has used a departmental prosecutor” to activate the case.
Ceballos assured that the now dismissed departmental prosecutor of the southern region of Tarija, Sandra Gutiérrez, failed to comply with procedural rules and insisted that the objective of this and other cases recently opened against the former president have “the sole purpose of detaining Evo Morales.” .
He also said that “the people and social organizations are going to take care of” the government leader as well. Movement to Socialism (MAS).
For his part, Evo Morales, in an alleged allusion to the case, pointed out this day on the social network , “imprisoned” and supposedly “tried” to kill him.
«I’m not afraid! They won’t shut me up! “I will continue fighting alongside our people, alongside my sisters and brothers who never abandoned me.”held.
On Wednesday, Sandra Gutierrez reported that she was dismissed by the State Attorney General, Juan Lanchipafor refusing to stop an investigation against Evo Morales for the alleged crime of human trafficking and for which there was an arrest warrant that was annulled by a court order.
The case “would have occurred” in a province of Tarija, when the alleged victim “was 15 years old,” although Gutiérrez declined to give further details as there was a minor involved.
Gutiérrez pointed out that “the background comes from an intelligence report” and denounced that there are supposedly “specific orders” from Lanchipa “to do absolutely nothing” about this case.
The case arises in the midst of the internal fight in the MAS between factions related to Morales and the country’s president, Luis Arce, for control of the party, the form of administration of the State and the presidential candidacy for the 2025 general elections. EFE (I)
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