Evo Morales is in the crosshairs for alleged links with a minor when he was president. On Wednesday night it was learned that the coca leader and head of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) had an arrest warrant for a case in which he is being investigated for the crimes of statutory rape and human trafficking. The arrest warrant was annulled after his lawyers filed an action for release, which was granted to him.
The former prosecutor of the department of Tarija, Sandra Gutiérrez, was the one who issued the arrest warrant against Evo Morales. In statements to local media, Gutiérrez reported having been dismissed by the attorney general, Juan Lanchipa, after the judicial action against the former president and avoided giving details of the case in which he is being investigated.
Infobae obtained a copy of the arrest warrant in which the details of the case are revealed. According to the document, on May 31, 2018, in a civil registry located in the border town of Yacuiba, in the department of Tarija, the birth certificate of a minor was issued. It registers as parents Cindy SVP, who was 18 years old at the time, and Juan Evo Morales Ayma, as the father of the minor.
Although the birth certificate was issued in 2018, the girl’s date of birth is noted as February 8, 2016, meaning that the parent was 16 years old at the time of birth and that the relationship with Evo Morales occurred. when I was 15 years old. Their daughter would currently be eight years old.
According to the arrest warrant, an intelligence report sent to the Prosecutor’s Office on September 26 indicates “the circumstances” in which the minor’s conception would have occurred. It says that between 2014 and 2015, the then president Evo Morales created, through different organizations, the so-called “Youth Guard”, made up of young people between 14 and 15 years old from different regions of the country. Cindy SVP’s parents would have enrolled their daughter in that organization with the objective of obtaining benefits, “that is, getting what they wanted in exchange for their youngest daughter,” the document says and points out “such as being able to obtain privileged positions, economic stability and political benefits.
Consequently, the minor would have been “practically forced to maintain sexual intercourse with citizen Evo Morales Ayma,” the document reads. The investigation also accuses the teenager’s parents, identified as Idelsa P. and Emetrio V., and indicates that both obtained public positions “as part of payment.”
With this background, the Tarija Prosecutor’s Office decided to open a case against former President Evo Morales for the crime of human trafficking and statutory rape, and establishes that the penalties are aggravated if the victim becomes pregnant.
Arrest warrant due to alleged flight risk
The document points out two dangers in the investigation. The first is that Evo Morales can hinder the process, since having held the position of president for more than 13 years, “he has powerful influences” to modify, destroy or hide elements of evidence that can demonstrate his responsibility in this case.
On the other hand, it points out that the accused does not have a fixed address and there may be a risk of flight. The arrest warrant establishes that his identity card does not specify the location of his home. Likewise, he maintains that his current work activity is unknown and that he is a person who constantly makes trips inside and outside the country. Finally, it is established that the coca leader has “the necessary means and influences” that would allow him to remain hidden or leave the country.
Based on these arguments and considering him “an effective danger to society,” the three prosecutors who investigated the case ordered the arrest of Evo Morales.
This arrest warrant became void after Evo Morales’ legal team filed an action for freedom, which was granted to him.
“It doesn’t surprise me or worry me. All neoliberal governments, including the current one, threatened me, persecuted me, imprisoned me, tried to kill me. I’m not afraid. They will not silence me,” Morales expressed on his X account after the case was disseminated.
His legal team denounced in the media that this is a judicial persecution by the Government of Luis Arce. This case occurs in the midst of the dispute between both leaders for control of the party and the candidacy for the 2025 elections.
Other links
It is the third time that former President Evo Morales has been linked to minors. The first time, he was linked to Gabriela Zapata, with whom he allegedly had a son when she was 18 years old. Zapata later was the manager of a Chinese company that made million-dollar contracts with the State when Morales was president. The case broke out in 2016.
Years later, after having left power, images and videos circulated of the head of the MAS with Noemí M., a teenager who was 19 years old in 2020 but had had a relationship with Morales since she was 14. According to police reports, the young woman He traveled three times to meet the former president in Mexico and Argentina, where he had sought asylum after resigning from the presidency of Bolivia in November 2019.
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