In statements to Radio 10, the former president pointed out that there is still no information about the perpetrators of the attack against him. “The government is trying to divert what happened,” he said.
In this context, he highlighted that the former Argentine Head of State Alberto Fernandez It “saved his life in 2019”, after the coup d’état that his government suffered. “Now it is a second blow, we are not going to abandon the fight,” he remarked.
“I urgently denounce” before the IACHR “that elite agents of the Bolivian State attacked my life today (Sunday),” he reported. Morales on the social network
In a video broadcast by Kawsachun Coca radio, linked to Morales, it is observed that in There are three holes in the windshield of a truck in which the former head of state is traveling as co-pilot, presumably from gunshots. The driver has blood on his head and a woman asks him to “hurry up.”
The attack occurred “while the government reactivates joint operations between police, military and paramilitary forces to direct the repression and attack the lives of sisters and brothers at the blockade and social protest points,” he said earlier. Morales to the radio station of the Kawsachun Coca coca growers, located in the Chapare region.
“Lucho (President Luis Arce) has destroyed Bolivia and now wants to eliminate our process by ending the life of Evo. Let’s see how we prepare (…). “A state of siege is underway,” added the coca leader, who is engaged in a dispute with the government of his former ally. Luis Arce, for the official presidential candidacy.
Bolivia: Luis Arce ordered an “immediate investigation” for the attack against Evo Morales
The president Maple responded from X that has ordered “an immediate and thorough investigation to clarify the fact”. “The exercise of any violent practice in politics must be condemned and clarified,” said the president and former Minister of Economy of Morales during his 14 years of government.
The report of the attack occurs a day after Maple change the country’s military leadership, amid road blockades promoted by Morales supporters in protest against a judicial investigation against him.
Morales said the shots were fired by “hooded” men. According to a statement from Movement Towards Socialism (MAS)a party founded by the former president, the attack occurred at the entrance to a military barracks in Cochabamba, where Subjects with “long weapons, dressed completely in black” fired at the vehicles that made up Morales’ entourage.
The vice minister of citizen security, Roberto Rios, He said that the authorities will investigate what happened, although They also consider the possibility that it was a “self-attack.” “As State authorities we are in the obligation to investigate any complaint whether it is true or a lie about the existence of a self-attack,” Ríos told the press.
He Former president is investigated for the alleged abuse of a minor with whom he had a daughter during his term. The Prosecutor’s Office announced a few weeks ago that it would issue an arrest warrant against him, but has not commented since then. His supporters, who demand the “cessation of judicial persecution” against the coca leader, have blocked important roads in the country since October 14.
“Luis Arce, you have crossed the red line. We call for a mobilization. If possible, we are going to take over the airports,” said Vicente Choque, leader of the Single Trade Union Confederation of Peasant Workers of Bolivia, at a press conference.
Source: Ambito
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