2024-10-03 01:33:27
The attorney general of the Bolivian district of Tarija, Sandra Gutiérrez, said this Thursday that The head of the Social Ministry was fired from his position and ordered to stop the arrest warrant against former President Evo Morales (2006-2019) in an investigation for alleged human trafficking and abuse.
In the statement to the media, Gutiérrez explained that first received instructions from the Attorney General of the State, Juan Lanchipa, to drop the case and dissolve the commission created to investigate it because the Office of the Special Counsel for Child Abuse and Violence against Children will be in charge of it. According to Gutiérrez, Lanchipa’s instructions also indicate that “he must cancel any provision that contradicts these instructions,” which means “the analysis of the committee,” because, he asserts, they threaten him with “the instructions of it is a crime and a punishment.” t.
The former prosecutor explained that today two of the three prosecutors of that Commission received “memorandums of thanks” for their services and He was fired from office after refusing to resign..
Gutiérrez assured that the new person in charge of the case “has come to prevent, to change this establishment and to stop all the investigations that we are doing.” “For the many instructions we have, we have an arrest warrant against Juan Evo Morales Ayma, we also have (arrest orders) for other people. They have been emptied,” he said.
The lawyer, who was the Minister of Justice in the administration of President Morales in 2014, explained that they do not know “how” the arrest warrant was leaked “because it has not been delivered to anyone.” “However, with one hour left (for him to kill), we were notified with the freedom operation in the city of Santa Cruz, even here (in Tarija), for the arrest warrant to be revoked against Juan Evo Morales,” he said.
An independent action was filed in Santa Cruz only against two prosecutors who were dismissed that day and a third agent was dismissed, Gutiérrez said.
The case that Morales is being investigated for the alleged crime of “human trafficking” and “it would have happened” when the victim “was 15 years old” in a district of Tarija, although Gutiérrez refused to give more details because there was a small child. Gutiérrez pointed out that “the conclusion comes from the intelligence report” and denied that it was appropriate There were “specific orders” from Lanchipa “to do absolutely nothing” about this matter. “I can’t stop. How will society believe then, the victims, how will they go to the front of the Government Office, whatever branch it is, if there is the interference,” he asked. He also noted that he will analyze the possibility of filing an international complaint “because the crime of trafficking is a crime against humanity.”
The case took place in the middle of the internal conflict in the government’s Movement to Socialism (MAS) between groups related to Morales and the president of the country, Luis Arce, for the control of the party, the form of management of the State and the presidential vote for the elections general 2025.
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