Evo Morales feels spied on and subjected to permanent monitoring. This is how the former president and national leader of the MAS referred yesterday to the arrest in Colombia of former Police Major Omar Rojas, who is requested for extradition by the United States charged with shipping drugs into US territoryand for the accusation that weighs on the former national director of the Special Force to Fight Drug Trafficking (Felcn), Maximiliano Dávila, of protecting international gangs of drug traffickers.
According to the US indictment, Dávila was able to use his official position “to protect aircraft used in the transport of cocaine, through third countries, and its distribution in the US.”
Dávila held the high position until November 2019, in the last administration of Evo Morales in the Presidency. Opposition sectors insist that the former head of state and leader of the Chapare coca growers is related to the police colonel who is currently detained in the San Pedro prison in La Paz, accused of legitimizing illicit profits.
The police colonel was arrested on Saturday, January 22, in Villazón, on the Bolivian border with Argentina, when he tried to cross into the neighboring country. Three days later, before going to jail, he said that he is innocent of the crime he is accused of and pointed to the Minister of Government, Carlos Eduardo Del Castillo, of want to involve former President Evo Morales in the case.
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In the usual Sunday interview that he grants to the Kawsachun Coca radio station, located in the Cochabamba tropics, Morales assured that is finding out if these actions are promoted by the opposition right in the country or by the United States embassy in Bolivia.
In Morales’ opinion, the detention of former Major Omar Rojas and Colonel Maximiliano Dávila is being used to dent the dignity of the Cochabamba tropics. “That has been throughout the time of the neoliberals, red zone they said,” she said.
However, the investigation by the United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) against the Bolivian police officers Rojas and Dávila began in early 2019, when Morales was in the Presidency of Bolivia.
Morales also referred to the video that circulated on social networks of young people ‘stepping on cocas’. According to him, it was with the intention of discrediting the producers of the leaf, considered sacred by coca growers and indigenous people, but which is identified as the basis for the manufacture of cocaine.
“It is a task of the State, of the Government (must) address this issue and investigate, but deep down (what) I feel (is the) attack every week, with lies, intrigues, false accusations. What will they be able to show me? they won’t be able to prove anything to me”, Said the former president who has rarely referred to the accusations of the DEA and the United States Government against the former Police officers accused of drug trafficking.
Likewise, Morales compared himself to Tupac Katari and pointed out that they seek to dismember him politically, but “that will not happen,” he said, because there is unity in the MAS-IPSP.
