There is an arrest warrant against Evo; The prosecutor says she did not reveal it before for security reasons.

Evo Morales had an arrest warrant since October 16, but yesterday it was only made public accusation for the crime of aggravated human trafficking and smuggling. The departmental prosecutor of Tarija, Sandra Gutiérrez, reported that she hid the news of the arrest warrant against the former president for the security of police and prosecutors, since they could not reach the address of Morales’ home in the tropics of Cochabamba and had to issue an edict because the coca leader’s home was not reached.

“Today (yesterday) the formal accusation has been filed for the crime of human trafficking. There is and has been an arrest warrant for these two people because they failed to comply by not showing up on the day they were summoned,” said Gutiérrez in the city of Tarija.

The tax investigation against the former president and the mother of the alleged victim It began on September 26 of this year in the Departmental Prosecutor’s Office of Tarija, initially with an arrest warrant against Morales, who did not appear to give his informative statement.

Gutiérrez mentioned that reports from the Bolivian Police and Intelligence show that They were unable to find the former president’s address. in the municipality of Villa Tunari and in the town of Lauca Ñboth in the tropics of Cochabamba, due to the technical and operational risks of police officials due to the lack of security and organized resistance in the place.

“I did not make it public before because the reports submitted by the Bolivian Police, through its different units, indicated that there were threats of different types. I did not want to be complicit in that, since we respect life and this is established by the Political Constitution of the State. That is why we have not made public the arrest warrant against Evo Morales and Mrs. Idelsa Pozo (mother of the alleged victim),” explained the Tarija departmental prosecutor.

Gutiérrez added that it was requested an immigration alert for the two accused people because he is aware that Evo Morales is still in the country, while the mother of the alleged victim would be in San José de Pocitos, on the border with Argentina.

The prosecutor recalled that, prior to the accusation, the Public Ministry also published an edict so that Morales and Pozo appear to give their statement informative, but once the ten-day period expired they did not do so either.

According to the tax authority, the accusation dates back to October 16; However, he said that The police could not comply with these arrest warrants and they issued a “countless number” of reports on why the arrest warrant was not being complied with.

Gutiérrez explained that the reports are quite extensive, in which “even” not only the lives of police officials were involved, but also from private people. “That is why we, seeing and guaranteeing the rights of the person as established in our Constitution, have had to remain silent in the face of harsh criticism,” he indicated.

The prosecutor noted that, among the reports by those assigned to the case, among the most outstanding, there is a report where Evo Morales presents a memorial that indicates where his home wasbut when they wanted to notify him in that house “absolutely no one lived.”

In that case, the Bolivian Police officers were unable to execute the arrest warrant against the former president because does not have a fixed address in the municipality of Villa Tunariwhere he had indicated that he lived

“During the investigation it was found that the citizen Juan Evo Morales Ayma was not there and an attempt was made to locate him in other possible addresses and places, where he could be found as the place that was indicated,” indicates one of the reports from the police officers who were responsible for executing the arrest warrant.

Moralesthrough a domiciliary search by the Public Faith Notary No. 4 of Villa Tunari, had indicated that His house is located in the urban center of that town in Chapareña, between Integración Avenue and Cecilio Guzmán Street.

In another police report, sent to the Departmental Prosecutor’s Office of Tarija, it is mentioned that the arrest was impossible, since from the moment of the social conflicts due to the blockade of roads carried out by those related to the former president, many officials of the law enforcement institution They were victims of assaults and attempted homicides by the blockers.

The reports are included in the more than ten investigation notebooks carried out by the commission of prosecutors of the department of Tarija in the case of the alleged human trafficking in which former President Morales is involved.

That case began in 2019, when Morales had already left the country after the social and political crisis of that year. They accused the former president of having pregnant a teenager who at 16 years old gave birth to a baby girl.

However, this process was frozen after the electoral victory of Luis Arce and could not advance during the administration of Jeanine Áñez, despite the fact that the former vice minister of Transparency Guido Melgar was also part of the case. This complaint against Morales was reactivated on September 26 of this year with a single form.

Meanwhile, the lawyer Evo Morales, Wilfredo Chávez, stated that the former president was not notified with the accusation for the alleged commission of the crime of aggravated human trafficking and smuggling. The jurist questioned prosecutor Gutiérrez and said what can be expected from a “postponed” person, referring to the fact that the case dates back to last October.

“The only thing I know is that (Evo Morales) was not notified and what I was seeing now is that the Prosecutor’s Office itself recognizes that they have not supposedly notified about the blockades, which have ceased more than a month ago,” said Chávez, who He questioned the actions of the authority of the Public Ministry of Tarija, who said that this type of actions can only be expected from a person who “failed” in their exam.

Sandra Gutiérrez was Evo Morales’ Minister of Justice and in the last administration of Juan Lanchipa she was dismissed precisely because the arrest warrant had been issued against Morales. In this new mandate of Roger Mariaca, as attorney general, Gutiérrez She was confirmed in her position.

The departmental prosecutor of Tarija, Sandra Gutiérrez, assured that There is “nothing political” in the investigation against Evo Morales. The authority said that they are waiting for a precautionary judge to set the date and time of the hearing against the former president and the mother of the alleged victim.

In October of this year, a judge in Tarija determined preventive detention in the Morros Blancos prison of the father of the alleged young woman who would have been a victim of Evo Morales in alleged acts of rape and human trafficking.