Bolivia: Justice ordered the arrest of former president Evo Morales for aggravated trafficking of people

The Justice of Bolivia rejected the appeal presented by the former president’s defense Evo Morales and ratified his arrest request. His capture had been requested by a prosecutor, but now it was a resolution signed by the judge Alberto Rocabado the one that Order your apprehension for a case of aggravated trafficking of people and stupro with a minor.

As indicated by the judicial resolution signed and issued on January 27, “The First Criminal Chamber of the Departmental Court of Justice of Tarija declares inadmissible the appeal of incidental appeal filed by Juan Evo Morales Ayma’s private lawyer.”

After the rejection of the appeal by the Court, now Judge Alberto Rocabado ratified the arrest warrant against the Bolivian ex -president. He is investigated for aggravated trafficking of people, in which he is accused of having maintained a relationship with a minor with whom he would have had a child In 2016 in Tarija, while occupying the presidency of the Andean country.

In turn, in the judicial resolution it was declared The rebellion against Morales for not appearing to two precautionary hearings before the judge.

“The contested resolution being a declaration of rebellion is not susceptible to further appeal. This is because the rebellion is considered a direct consequence of the procedural attitude of the accused, who does not appear to the judicial appointment without a valid justification”points the failure.

Now, from the government of Luis Arce They ask the former president to give himself to justice, in even the Interior Minister Eduardo del Castillo He affirmed that the police already have a “Order of Operations” And they expect the defendant to leave the town of Chapare, His political and union bastion, where he has been located since November 2024, protected by hundreds of coca growers and militant peasants.

For his part, the former president declared himself as “pursued” by the Executive, which would have as an end, according to Morales himself, to avoid being enabled as a presidential candidate for the general elections of August 17.

In turn, the leader of the Socialism Movement (MAS), said that “If there is no victim, there is no crime“, referring to the woman with whom she supposedly maintained a relationship when she was a minor. In the town of Tarija there are also others Seven complaints against the former president for alleged abuse of minors.

Already last October the Prosecutor had issued an arrest warrant against Morales, but his followers They blocked roads for 24 days to avoid their apprehension.

In addition, justice prohibited him Leaving the country and arranged the preventive annotation of their assets and the freezing of their bank accounts.

Meanwhile, the followers of the ex -president warned that they carry out permanent vigils in the different locations of the Tropic of Cochabamba And even They will excavate wells to avoid the landing of airplanes or helicopters in the area.

This judicial process is another chapter in the tense relationship between Morales and the current president of Bolivia, Luis Arce (also of the MAS), due to differences in state administration and party control.

The cause against Evo Morales

Evo Moraleswho already prevented him from participating in the next elections, was accused of having committed the crimes of Trafficking with people and stupro with a minor with whom he supposedly had a child, whose birth certificate -in the town of Yacuiba– It would represent the main test. This would have happened in 2016 when the leader was president and the adolescent was 15 years old.

In addition, the process indicates that Parents of the victim “profit” with her by handing her to the former president in exchange for “favors.” The young woman’s father is in prison With preventive detention and his mother was declared in rebellion, after having lacked the audience on Tuesday to which she was summoned.

In this framework, the ex -president pointed against Luis Arcecurrent president, and assured that this is a case of persecution and attempt for political proscription for the 2025 elections. “It is a black plan to eliminate me politically and physically to get me out of the electoral race, ”he said. At the moment he did not talk about the formal imputation or the arrest warrant in the case of alleged abuse of a minor who was pregnant.