The Bolivian Prosecutor’s Office issued an immigration alert against Evo Morales – Diario La Página –

The Attorney General’s Office of Bolivia instructed to activate an immigration alert against Evo Morales and open a new investigation for alleged cases of corruption during his administration, following a complaint filed by former deputies Amilcar Barrar and Yesenia Yarhuri Albino.

The cases referred to in the complaint have to do with the management of resources from a million-dollar program called the Indigenous Fund and the signing of contracts with the Chinese company CAMC whose representative in Bolivia was an ex-girlfriend of Morales, among others. According to the former parliamentarians, the total economic damage to the State would be 1,000 million dollars, a figure that must be corroborated after an investigation by the Public Ministry.

This complaint joins others that were opened against the former president in recent weeks, in an act that Evism considers a lawfare campaign to eliminate him from the political scene. The accusation that gained the most notoriety is the one that implicates him in the alleged pregnancy of a 15-year-old teenager when he was head of state.

According to documentation in the possession of the Departmental Prosecutor’s Office of Tarija, Evo Morales would have had a daughter with a minor in 2016, who was registered two years later in a civil registry in the town of Yacuiba, on the border with Argentina. and whose birth certificate constitutes proof of the crime. The former president is accused of trafficking and rape, and the minor was 15 years old and he was 57 when the alleged pregnancy occurred. The complaint also accuses the victim’s parents of alleged complicity and having benefited from public positions during the former president’s relationship with their daughter.

Morales was summoned to testify last Thursday before the commission of prosecutors leading the investigation but did not appear so the Prosecutor’s Office can issue an arrest warrant.

“The law so orders, be it Evo Morales, be it Juan Pérez, the law is absolutely for everyone and we are working on what corresponds according to the law. What corresponds is to issue the arrest warrant since they have been notified without their rights having been violated,” prosecutor Sandra Gutiérrez, in charge of the case, told the media. However, until the publication of this note, it is unknown if the order was issued.

Meanwhile, local media reported that the victim’s father was arrested and sent under preventive detention to the Morros Blancos prison, in Tarija, for also being absent from taking statements.

Given the possible arrest of Evo Morales, his followers threatened with nationwide blockades starting this Monday to “protect the freedom, integrity and kidnapping” of the leader of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), according to the final vote of a meeting of peasant organizations held on Saturday in the town of Sacaba, in Cochabamba.

In the early hours of this Monday, at least four points were installed on two trunk roads near the coca-growing region where the former president established himself as a union and political leader. According to reports from the Unitel channel, the Police reached one of the blocking points and lifted the stones that were in the road to allow vehicles to pass and remained vigil to prevent the barricade from being retaken.

The conflict over the legal situation of Evo Morales occurs in the midst of his dispute with President Luis Arce over the ownership of the party and the candidacy of the 2025 presidential elections, which has them involved in a public confrontation for more than a year. . “The traitor government built a judicial and violent route to end the Process of Change. Through sentences they seek to snatch the acronym of the MAS-IPSP from the Social Movements to outlaw the (political) Instrument,” the former president wrote in his X account.

The day before, the Minister of the Presidency, Maria Nela Prada, summoned Evo Morales to a dialogue table with the president this Monday at 3:00 p.m. (EST) to negotiate a truce and suspend the blockades. The coca grower leader has not yet responded publicly to this invitation but declined other similar proposals made in September.