The former president of Bolivia, Evo Morales (2006-2019), will not attend the summons of the Prosecutor’s Office for the case in which he is being investigated for “human trafficking” and “rape,” social organizations related to the former president reported this Thursday.
“He will not attend because all this is blackmail”he stated Pedro Llanqueleader of the call Unity Pact of Morales’ followers, who was summoned to testify in the region of Tariasouth of the Andean country.
“Since yesterday (President) Luis Arce has mobilized all police officers from each department, there are more than 600 police officers in order to arrest our brother Evo Morales”added the peasant leader.
According to the complaint in its possession by the Bolivian Prosecutor’s Office, Morales would have committed the crimes of “human trafficking” and “rape” with a minor with whom he supposedly had a child; The victim allegedly belonged to a youth group created by the former president during his Presidency, called ‘Generation Evo’.
For the Unity Pact bloc related to the former president, the case is “invented” so from this day all members of these social organizations declared themselves “in a state of permanent emergency.”
“If an arrest warrant is issued, we have instructed that there be a national road blockade and this time it will be until Lucho (Luis Arce) and David (Choquehuanca) leave”Llanque stated.
The former Bolivian president stated that he will defend himself from this “legal battle” that for him is nothing more than a “political” accusation and announced that there are more than 200 lawyers who have called him to defend him “free of charge.”
This week Morales participated in different activities in the Tropics of the central region of Cochabamba, his political and union stronghold.
The complaint against the former president was filed on September 26 at the Tarija Prosecutor’s Office three days after, after a 187-kilometer march, Morales and thousands of his followers gave an ultimatum to the Government of the current president, Luis Arce, with whom maintains a fight for control of the ruling party Movement to Socialism (MAS).
Morales alleges that the complaints are “political persecution” against him to prevent him from running as a presidential candidate in the 2025 general elections.
The Puebla Group, a political and academic forum that is made up of representatives of the political left of Latin America, expressed its concern about the “lawfare campaign” or political judicialization against the MAS leader. EFE (I)
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