A Venezuelan soldier is the supplier of vehicles and planes to Evo Morales

Miguel Ángel Lozano Delgado is a lieutenant colonel in the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) of Venezuela. He resides in the city of La Paz as he is the main executive of Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) in Bolivia and is the one who supplies vehicles and planes to Evo Morales. Lozano is a staunch supporter of Hugo Chávez and recently wrote a book about the late former Venezuelan president. Deputy Jairo Guiteras denounced interference by the Venezuelan military and his colleague Erwin Bazán requested information to the Ministry of Public Works to report on the use of planes with Venezuelan registration by the coca leader.

Lozano Delgado makes consecutive trips between Caracas, La Paz and Santa Cruz de la Sierra. He is a military man very close to the Nicolás Maduro regime and was also close to the time of Hugo Chávez. His last promotion, according to the Ministry of Popular Power for Defense of Venezuela, was in 2016 to the rank of lieutenant colonel. Then, He requested a license to assume other functions, including senior positions at PDVSA even though he has no academic knowledge about hydrocarbons.

This Venezuelan soldier is the one who delivers the vehicles and planes to Evo Morales so that he can move around the country by land and leave Bolivia by air to foreign nations.

Deputy Jairo Guiteras, from Comunidad Ciudadana (CC), considered that there is “Venezuelan military interference” in the internal politics of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), taking into account that Lozano Delgado is still part of the FANB of Venezuela. The opposition legislator announced that he will file a complaint with the Public Ministry to initiate an investigation into this topic.

“Deepening the investigation, information was found that Miguel Ángel Lozano Delgado, who is the president of PDVSA in Bolivia and owner of vehicles that Morales uses, is a soldier in Venezuela. Therefore, “It is confirmed that Venezuelan soldiers would be in Bolivia supporting Morales with logistics.”Guiteras said.

In November 2019, Morales stopped being president of Bolivia and since that time he traveled to different countries on aircraft that belong to the Venezuelan State. In the country it also moves in vehicles owned by PDVSA. Even the coca leader himself admitted that the two motor vehicles involved in the shooting last Sunday in the tropics of Cochabamba were borrowed. by the Government of Venezuela and that this action was known to Luis Arce.

“A meeting outside. Lucho (Arce) was there. There were some colleagues from Venezuela, Cuba and, with the knowledge of Lucho (Arce), “Venezuela lends me the two mobilities for security reasons,” Morales said on Kawsachun Coca radio.

In September, Former Minister of Justice Iván Lima revealed that the vehicle in which Morales traveled during his march was purchased by PDVSAnd then sold at a low price to a 21-year-old girl. Days before, the head of Government, Eduardo Del Castillo, denounced that the young woman was the owner of the vehicle, whose mother had a sentence for drug trafficking. That motor vehicle was also in the name of the soldier Lozano Delgado.

One of Morales’ last flights on a PDVSA plane was in April of this year. The coca leader traveled to Caracas to participate in a meeting of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA). He made the trip on a private flight on aircraft YV1118.

That aircraft belongs to PDVSA and is sanctioned by the United States Government. In September 2021, the same aircraft with registration YV-1118 picked up Morales at the Cochabamba airport to take him to Venezuela.

Deputy Erwin Bazán, from Creo, announced that he will request information from the Ministry of Public Works to investigate the use of Venezuelan planes by Evo Morales.

Foreign resources
Deputy Jairo Guiteras, from Comunidad Ciudadana (CC), demanded that Evo Morales be suspended as leader of the MAS for having violated Law 1096 of Political Organizations, after confessing that he receives support from Venezuela, since the motor vehicles he uses belong to an executive of the Venezuelan state oil company.

Legal status
Electoral member Tahuichi Tahuichi Quispe stated that, if a formal complaint is filed about foreign financing in favor of the MAS leader, one of the consequences may be that the ruling party loses its legal status. The authority added that this issue should be investigated by the Public Ministry.