October 7, 2024, 4:00 AM
October 7, 2024, 4:00 AM
The battle continues without respite. Justice determined the reinstatement of the district attorney of Tarija, Sandra Gutiérrez, in her positionafter she was dismissed by the State Attorney General, Juan Lanchipa, when she ordered the arrest of Evo Morales in the framework of an investigation for statutory rape and trafficking.
After knowing the ruling in favor of the former departmental prosecutor of Tarija, the defense of former President Evo Morales observed this legal appeal issued by Justice last weekend.
Cecilia Urquieta, a lawyer who is part of Morales’ legal team, said that the freedom action presented by Gutiérrez was not registered correctly in the Current System of the Management Office of the Judicial Branch.
The legal representative of the former president said, in an interview with radio Kawsachun Coca, that the former prosecutor Gutiérrez presented on October 3 an Action for Freedom with the Judicial Registration Number (Nurej) 204188396 to the Anti-Corruption and Violence Criminal Sentencing Court No. 25 under Judge Miguel Flores.
He added that that same freedom action “was withdrawn because it did not fall in a court that could be manipulated,” the lawyer denounced while showing the documents during the interview he gave.
“Now the complaint is that the new Freedom Action that they have filed is not registered in the Judicial Branch System (the former prosecutor Sandra Gutierrez) and that he even already has a sentence,” denounced Urquieta.
Judge Yván Córdova Castillo issued a ruling in favor of former prosecutor Gutiérrez, who, When she was fired from her duties on October 2, she reported that she was pressured by the State Attorney General, Juan Lanchipa, to leave the case of the former president investigated for alleged rape and human trafficking.
“The undersigned judge, in application of article 125 of the Political Constitution of the State and fulfilling functions as a judge of constitutional guarantees, disposes and determines to grant the protection requested by Mrs. Elizabeth Sandra Gutiérrez solely and exclusively,” Judge Córdova ruled, according to the Unitel report.
The court ruling would render resolution number FGE/AMNMC/DAL/193/2024, dated October 2, 2024, without legal effect, “granting the sole and exclusive protection requested.” exclusively to the coerced, who responds to the name of Mauricio Nava Morales, as he is the subscriber of the document considered to violate constitutional rights and guarantees,” continued the judge, who then ordered the attorney general to “correct” the actions that affected the former departmental prosecutor Gutiérrez.
Judge Córdova appears on the list of qualified candidates for the position of State Attorney Generalobserved Morales’ lawyer.
EL DEBER tried to contact Sandra Gutiérrez, but the lawyer did not answer the calls or text messages that It was sent to you from this journalistic house.
On October 2, it became known that there was an arrest warrant against Morales for the two crimes for which he is being investigated, but the order was revoked by decision of the Criminal Sentencing judge No. 14 of Santa Cruz, Lilian Moreno Cuéllar, before an appeal for freedom action presented by Morales’ lawyers alleging violation of rights.
Evo Release
Former President Morales in his Sunday radio program Kawsachun Coca stressed that the process that was being followed was rejected on December 10, 2020 by the Court of Third Criminal Instruction in the municipality of Yacuiba. Along these lines, he stressed that no person can be prosecuted or convicted more than once for the same act, despite new circumstances being alleged.
“I was in Argentina, there was no way to defend myself, we never obstructed the investigation. Now the case is closed, they investigated and found nothing. ‘I fight’ just like (Jeanine) Añez uses the Tarija Prosecutor’s Office to prosecute me. “I cannot believe that the Minister of Justice would present an accusation when the process is closed, it is totally forced,” he insisted.
Finally, Morales publicly thanked a group of soldiers, without mentioning names, for alerting him to the existence of an arrest warrant issued against him. Furthermore, he indicated that the Government sent a Super Puma plane to transfer you from the Chimoré airport, Cochabamba, to La Paz.
