Very revealing was the interview (answered in writing) published by the morning newspaper Pagina Siete this past February 12, in which the former Minister of Communication of the transitional government of Jeanine Áñez, Roxana Lizárraga, pointed to Arturo Murillo, Yerko Núñez and the then Senator Óscar Ortiz for having agreed with the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) the tenure of the state attorney general, Juan Lanchipa, also pointing out that these three former ministers ordered the safe-conduct for Luis Arce to go to Mexico. Roxana Lizárraga, journalist, lawyer, radio host and television presenter, was in charge of the Communications Office from November 14, 2019 to January 26, 2020, when she resigned.
According to the former minister, “on the day of the cabinet inauguration, Murillo was busy looking for support. At that time two names were used: Murillo and Tomás Monasterio. Samuel Doria Medina, Óscar Ortiz and members of the Democrats supported Murillo and made contact with Áñez”; and Lizárraga did not stop there, he pointed out: “There was a false opposition.
Murillo was one of those chosen by the masismo. He has a half-brother, Vladimir Sánchez, a former Morales minister who was an important link with the Evo Morales regime. The MAS chooses its opponents, does them favors, gives them privileges and impunity. The best thing that Evo and the current president (Luis Arce) have is the opposition.”
The serious thing about Lizárraga’s complaints is that with great certainty he affirmed that Luis Arce’s safe-conduct was ordered by Murillo, Núñez and Ortiz, and they negotiated the tenure of the state attorney general, Juan Lanchipa. Serious because the entire country called for and cries out for transparency and restructuring of Bolivian justice, and this column has repeatedly referred to the moral insolvency of prosecutor Lanchipa and that of the prosecutors and judges of our justice. So the question we all ask is why Núñez, Murillo and Ortiz did not want to play Lanchipa?
Lizárraga goes further, indicating that “Óscar Ortiz, as a pseudo-oppositionist, placed trusted people close to Áñez. Lourdes Landívar was close to Ortiz and Rubén Costas. There was a struggle for quotas of power. Landívar controlled Áñez’s agenda, she did not give way to the request of the Catholic Church that was looking for Áñez to ask her not to go as a candidate. That went against the interests of Ortiz, Murillo, Costas and Samuel Doria Medina.”
The other question that remains in the air after Lizárraga’s interview is why Murillo, Ortiz and Costas negotiated in December to maintain the MAS acronym? If precisely what was desired at that time after the monumental fraud was to dismantle the fraudulent machinery implemented by people from Morales, with advice from Cuba and Venezuela.
“Perhaps for this reason the superministers did not support my complaint in the Prosecutor’s Office about the use of Bolivian money for the Morales campaign. Even Núñez, in his capacity as minister, refused to give information to former member Rosario Baptista”, pointed out Roxana Lizárraga.
Undoubtedly, the interview with the former minister reveals questions that until now were aired in the corridors and had not come to light, and have more value in the case of a former high authority of the transitional government of Jeanine Áñez. “Not having cleaned up the Judiciary, not having dismantled the fraudulent structure within the Electoral Body, not having eliminated the rules created by Evo’s dictatorship, which allow him to perpetuate himself in power,” are very harsh assertions, the same ones that should be answered by the accused, that they remain silent will mean that what Roxana Lizárraga indicates is true.
Very revealing was the interview (answered in writing) published by the morning newspaper Pagina Siete this past February 12, in which the former Minister of Communication of the transitional government of Jeanine Áñez, Roxana Lizárraga, pointed to Arturo Murillo, Yerko Núñez and the then Senator Óscar Ortiz for having agreed with the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) the tenure of the state attorney general, Juan Lanchipa, also pointing out that these three former ministers ordered the safe-conduct for Luis Arce to go to Mexico. Roxana Lizárraga, journalist, lawyer, radio host and television presenter, was in charge of the Communications Office from November 14, 2019 to January 26, 2020, when she resigned.
According to the former minister, “on the day of the cabinet inauguration, Murillo was busy looking for support. At that time two names were used: Murillo and Tomás Monasterio. Samuel Doria Medina, Óscar Ortiz and members of the Democrats supported Murillo and made contact with Áñez”; and Lizárraga did not stop there, he pointed out: “There was a false opposition.
Murillo was one of those chosen by the masismo. He has a half-brother, Vladimir Sánchez, a former Morales minister who was an important link with the Evo Morales regime. The MAS chooses its opponents, does them favors, gives them privileges and impunity. The best thing that Evo and the current president (Luis Arce) have is the opposition.”
The serious thing about Lizárraga’s complaints is that with great certainty he affirmed that Luis Arce’s safe-conduct was ordered by Murillo, Núñez and Ortiz, and they negotiated the tenure of the state attorney general, Juan Lanchipa. Serious because the entire country called for and cries out for transparency and restructuring of Bolivian justice, and this column has repeatedly referred to the moral insolvency of prosecutor Lanchipa and that of the prosecutors and judges of our justice. So the question we all ask is why Núñez, Murillo and Ortiz did not want to play Lanchipa?
Lizárraga goes further, indicating that “Óscar Ortiz, as a pseudo-oppositionist, placed trusted people close to Áñez. Lourdes Landívar was close to Ortiz and Rubén Costas. There was a struggle for quotas of power. Landívar controlled Áñez’s agenda, she did not give way to the request of the Catholic Church that was looking for Áñez to ask her not to go as a candidate. That went against the interests of Ortiz, Murillo, Costas and Samuel Doria Medina.”
The other question that remains in the air after Lizárraga’s interview is why Murillo, Ortiz and Costas negotiated in December to maintain the MAS acronym? If precisely what was desired at that time after the monumental fraud was to dismantle the fraudulent machinery implemented by people from Morales, with advice from Cuba and Venezuela.
“Perhaps for this reason the superministers did not support my complaint in the Prosecutor’s Office about the use of Bolivian money for the Morales campaign. Even Núñez, in his capacity as minister, refused to give information to former member Rosario Baptista”, pointed out Roxana Lizárraga.
Undoubtedly, the interview with the former minister reveals questions that until now were aired in the corridors and had not come to light, and have more value in the case of a former high authority of the transitional government of Jeanine Áñez. “Not having cleaned up the Judiciary, not having dismantled the fraudulent structure within the Electoral Body, not having eliminated the rules created by Evo’s dictatorship, which allow him to perpetuate himself in power,” are very harsh assertions, the same ones that should be answered by the accused, that they remain silent will mean that what Roxana Lizárraga indicates is true.
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