October 11, 2024, 3:07 PM
October 11, 2024, 3:07 PM
After the Tarija Prosecutor’s Office announced that it is working on the arrest warrant for former President Evo Morales in the case of alleged rape and human trafficking, The former president’s defense insisted this Friday that must be processed in the municipality of Villa Tunari, department of Cochabamba.
“There is a ruling that annulled (the first) arrest warrant (…) and that same ruling also establishes that This process cannot be carried out in Tarijamust be taken to the home of the person being processed“In this case it is Villa Tunari, we all know the address of the person being prosecuted,” said Cecilia Urquieta.one of the lawyers on the former president’s legal team.
The jurist, in contact with a couple of radio stations in the Tropics, confirmed that due to that same judicial resolution, former President Morales did not appear to testify on Thursday before the Tarija Prosecutor’s Office.
Meanwhile, the leader evis Gerardo García confirmed that the organizations that support former President Morales They will “take” the roads immediately once his new arrest warrant is officially issued.
Well, “just as the bases laid it out for him (Luis Arce) to be president, the same the bases can remove him from president”García warned.
“We campaigned to seat him in the (presidential) chair, that Not in his f… life was he going to be president, no one knew him, what leadership does he have?has nothing. Thanks to a political decision (he became president) and we were surely wrong in thinking that a professional was going to be better than our brother Evo, (but) he has screwed up the country leaving him bankrupt,” he continued.
Where is Evo Morales?
Evista Senator Leonardo Loza assured that former President Morales is carrying out his daily activities normally in the Tropics accompanied by “several leaders and companions.”
He pointed out that he also has other activities on Saturday in the city of Cochabamba and that until “at this moment it is not known what the reality is about the political persecution” against him.
But, “He is very calm because he knows he is innocent, It is not a question of rape or human trafficking, we know that this issue is ultimately absolutely political,” Loza pointed out.