Former president Jeanine Áñez joined the series of questions that arose after former president Evo Morales did not appear at his hearing for precautionary measures in the case of alleged human trafficking.
“Evo Morales, free and unpunished, has been mocking justice for 20 years. Yesterday (on Monday), surrounded by his personal guard, he walked and organized marches against his own government, the MAS regime, and today (on Tuesday) again cowardly evades the criminal acts he committed against girls and adolescents,” said the former president through her social networks.
Morales is being investigated in Tarija because, when he was president of Bolivia, he allegedly impregnated a minor and the Prosecutor’s Office charged him with the alleged commission of the crime of human trafficking.
His hearing for precautionary measures was called for January 14 in a court in Tarija, but he did not appear; however, He sent his legal defense to present a medical certificate to justify the absence of the accused.
The hearing was postponed to January 17, at 9:30. However, the Minister of Government, Eduardo Del Castillo, expressed his doubts about said medical certificate.
“Unfortunately they have presented, from our personal point of view, a medical certificate of dubious origin saying that Mr. Morales suffers from pneumonia and that he is on medical leave,” he said.
The authority hopes that Morales, on Friday, “will have enough nobility to appear and be able to prove whether he is guilty or innocent.”
