The van that transported the former president of Bolivia Evo Morales He was shot 14 times and his driver was injured. The former president, who was going to his radio program Kawsachun Coca, is unharmed and reported that they are looking for “his physical disappearance.”
In the video broadcast by Bolivian media, it was observed blood on the back of the neck driver, who was driving at high speed with splintered windows after the attack. “They shot our tires,” was heard in the video from a woman who was also in the car.
“Two Tundra trucks surprised us,” Morales began when recounting the events in Kawsachun Cocaand continued: “I thought that maybe some drunk was trying to stop us, but I suspected it was strange and the driver diverted. Another one crossed us and happily there was a small space between the two cars. We now realize that it was an operation“.
The former head of state continued: “The shooting started. At that moment I heard three shots. We crouched down, as they were crossed we stung. We ran quite a bit and the second car that was following us also barely crossed, but he followed us, he almost caught up with us. Other shots. “They had shot the tire that was there.”
“They kept shooting and we stung. In the car that arrived, 14 shots. At the driver’s head, he arrived bleeding,” added Evo Morales in the program he regularly attends. In addition, he added that there was “another shot in the driver’s arm.” The former president pointed out that “since 2022, General Zuñiga said ‘We have to go down to Evo'” and, he explained, “in military terms, going down is killing.” “Fortunately it didn’t reach me, but in the car they told us 14 shots were fired. It surprised me. Fortunately we saved our lives“he highlighted.
For months, Morales has been denouncing political persecution by the current president of Bolivia, Luis Arce. “Let the world know that Luis Arce has reactivated fascism in Bolivia together with his ally Manfred Reyes Villa. As was done during the 2019 coup, paramilitary groups are used to burn the facilities of the Federation of Peasant Workers of the Cochabamba Tropics. Those same shock groups, which the GIEI was instructed to dismantle, are used by this government to attack the people,” he wrote on Saturday, one day before the attack on his truck.
The crisis in Bolivia worsens: the government of Luis Arce accused Evo Morales of wanting to undermine the constitutional order
The Bolivian Foreign Ministry denounced this Saturday that the former president Evo Morales try to interrupt the democratic order of the country through the protests and blockades that its followers have sustained during the last 13 days.
According to the Bolivian government, these actions not only seek to affect internal stability, but also represent “a serious threat not only to Bolivia, but also to the stability and security in our region.”
He also alerted the international community about the possible consequences of this mobilization, calling on States and multilateral organizations to remain vigilant in the face of “destabilizing events that seek to put at risk the democracy recovered by the Bolivian people.”
The protesters, followers of Morales and members of the Movement to Socialism (MAS)have blocked various routes demanding the suspension of judicial charges against the former president, arguing that it is a political persecution.
News in development.-
Source: Ambito
