2024-10-27 14:25:00
Bullets injured the politician’s driver as he transported the former president of Bolivia to the station where he hosted his radio show.
October 27, 2024 . Updated at 3.25pm
Former president of Bolivia Evo Morales (2006-2019) reported this Sunday that the vehicle that was taking him to the station where he usually hosts his weekend program received 14 shotsby unknown persons who injured the politician’s driver.
The former president told Coca radio station Kawsachun Coca that the pursuit of his vehicle by two other men in which the attackers were traveling occurred at 6:25 a.m. local time (10:25 GMT) on the road between the city of Villa Tunari and LaucaÑÑ, in Tropic of Cochabamba.
According to Efe, Morales reported that he noticed that two or three trucks were following his car, so his driver “diverted” his route, but the chase did not stop. “That’s when I knew it was an operation,” he said.
“It surprised me, luckily we saved our lives,” said the former governor who said he counted at least 14 shots.
The event was recorded in a four minute video which was filmed by a woman who was in the car with Morales and which shows part of the event.
“Get out, get out!”, the two occupants of the vehicle told Morales, while the leader of the Movement towards Socialism (MAS), in power, spoke on the phone trying to warn about what was happening.
Filming stops for a moment, then Morales mentions that they had to do it change transport as the previous one was damaged and the tire was down due to a gunshot.
Just at that moment the occupants noticed that the driver of the vehicle was bleeding from the head, as he insistently honked the horn to pass a stretch of road with heavy traffic.
Then, the ruling party leader opened the window and alerted residents of the area that they had been affected and asked them to block the road so that his pursuers could not pass.
After what happened, Morales targeted Luis Arce’s government of the incident and stated that “today the plan to try to kill him was carried out, after attempts to destroy him politically and prosecute him judicially failed.
These events occur while today we celebrate the two weeks of indefinite road blockade that Morales’ followers maintain to ask the Government to withdraw the prosecution for human trafficking and statutory rape against Evo Morales, who they consider part of a political persecution.
They are also calling for solutions to rising food prices, a lack of dollars, irregular fuel supplies and respect for a MAS congress that in 2023 declared Morales the “sole candidate” for next year’s elections.
On Saturday, the Bolivian Foreign Ministry denounced to the international community that these protests led by Morales “aim to disrupt the democratic order”, which also affects the stability of the South American region.
While President Luis Arce, the day before, had raised the military high command, with the mission of preserving the country’s internal order and democracy.
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