A court in the southern region of Tarija notified by edict to the former president of Bolivia Evo Morales (2006-2019), who must appear before that instance on January 14 in a process for aggravated human trafficking, for the alleged relationship with a minor with whom he would have had a child. .
“In-person public hearing is scheduled for Tuesday January 14 at 9:30, be with notice from the tax authority and other procedural subjects,” mentions the judicial document issued by Judge Nelson Rocabado of the Fifth Court of Criminal Investigation, Anti-Corruption and Against Violence against Women, which identifies Morales and the mother of the alleged victim. as “accused”.
The edict indicates that the alleged victim, a minor in 2014, “she was captured” by the ‘youth guard’ led by the former president and the ‘Generation Evo’ group.
It also specifies that the mother and father, the latter detained in this case since October, allowed the minor “have direct contact” with Morales.
The notification establishes that the then president of Bolivia, “taking advantage of the vulnerability of the victim and the consent of the parents”, He managed to make the minor “at his disposal” in different places in the country and abroad.
Likewise, it mentions that Morales used the alleged victim “to satisfy your sexual needs (…) in the different events and trips made without considering that she was a 14-year-old teenager.”
Morales and his followers have pointed out on several occasions that the case was rejected a few years ago and that it was now “dearchived“with the purpose of discrediting him in the face of a candidacy for the 2025 presidential elections.
The former president remains in Lauca Ña town in the central area of the Tropic of Cochabamba, his main political and union bastion, since the end of September, when the Prosecutor’s Office of the Tarija region began an investigation against him for possible human trafficking.
The announcement that there was an arrest warrant against Morales motivated His followers will block roads especially in the center of the country for 24 days, between October and November, with the central demand that the criminal proceedings against them cease.
Last week, the Public Ministry formally charged the former Bolivian president and the mother of the alleged victim for aggravated human trafficking and smuggling.
A few days ago, the Bolivian authorities issued a immigration alert against the former president, while police action is still awaited to comply with the judicial request.
Given this, some related leaders declared that Morales has a guarantee of “elite“and warned that “blood will flow” if the police stop him.
The politician spent Christmas surrounded by his followers, who carried out activities such as a Christmas Eve dinner and a delivery of gifts to children the next day, and he thanked them for taking care of him.
In addition to the case in Tarija, in Cochabamba there are seven other complaints for alleged abuse of minors against Morales and last month it was learned that a criminal investigation was opened against him for alleged human trafficking and sexual abuse in Argentina, where he lived for a year. , from late 2019, when he resigned from the Presidency.
These investigations against the politician occur in the midst of his estrangement from the President Arce for control of the MAS and the definition of the official candidacy for the 2025 elections.
