The former president of Bolivia Evo Morales defended himself next Friday against the accusation of child abuse that the Bolivian prosecutor’s office reactivated against him in the last few days: “All false. It is closed [este caso]. [Lo] “They are managing politically to erode the image of Evo,” he said in a press conference he gave in his stronghold, Chapare, Bolivia’s coca-growing area. A journalist asked him if he had a daughter in 2016 and Morales, worried, replied: “How many children do you have? Fight [Arce, el presidente boliviano] He said, ‘Don’t mess with the family.’ The family is sacred. The family is sacred,” he repeated.
The reason for the power for Arce is that he repeatedly asked the internal war with his former political mentor not to touch his children. Morales has repeatedly criticized them because they are said to intervene in government decisions and because of suspicions of corruption.
The complaint that the former president had a daughter in 2016 with a 15-year-old teenager is the same that was already made against him after he was overthrown in November 2019. “I remember that perfectly [la entonces presidenta Jeanine] Áñez prosecuted and investigated me. And it was proven false. On December 10, in Yacuiba, there was a resolution [del] “The prosecutor rejected” the charge of statutory rape, he declared. He cited a complaint from a prosecutor from Tupiza, a town in southern Bolivia where the alleged victim came from. “There is nothing and there will be nothing. I fight just like Áñez. “I am fighting for Áñez,” he said, surrounded by more than a dozen movement leaders. Morales recalled that according to Bolivian legislation, no one can be tried twice on the same charge. “The Minister of Justice does not know [César Siles] the code of criminal procedure?” he asked.
Evo Morales criticized that the Government wanted to arrest him on October 1 and take him out of Chapare in an Armed Forces helicopter. He gave the names of the police who were supposed to be in charge of arresting him. He congratulated Judge Lilian Moreno, who canceled the arrest warrant against him because, as explained by the lawyer, the prosecution tried to present a five-year-old complaint as an unsolved crime and did not inform the former president that the case was filed. reactivated. This ruling is now being considered by the Constitutional Court.
According to Morales, members of the ruling party are concerned about the political consequences of imprisoning him in Bolivia, so they considered the possibility of extraditing him to the United States. Currently, Maximiliano Dávila, the anti-drug leader of the last Morales Government (2015-2019), who is wanted by a New York court for narcotics trafficking, is being extradited to that country. Morales refused to deport Bolivia, which would happen again years later if Davie’s case was approved. “I always refused,” he said. He repeated what he has already said: that they want to use the former police officer to convict him of drug trafficking.
The Puebla Group, created in 2019 to promote progressive dialogue in Latin America and Southern Europe, which earlier this year tried to reconcile the two wings of the Movement towards Socialism, has chosen, on this issue at least, for Morales. He expressed in a statement “the great concern he has about the campaign of Conradh na Gaeilge law that is starting to develop against comrade Evo Morales in Bolivia.”
He appreciated the gesture, as he said, “I did not negotiate.” He showed some surveys in which he appears first in the intention to vote for next year’s elections, although Arce’s number is at the bottom. He blamed the closing judicial siege around him, which consists of three other processes as well as statutory rape, on his political success and Arce’s parallel fall in the polls. “A dirty campaign, that’s what it’s all about. All against Evo. The right also supports Luco Arce against Evo,” he pointed out regarding the statements of the opposition so that the process against Morales ends this time.
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