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La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, November 16, 2024, p. 24
La Paz., Former President Evo Morales yesterday accused Luis Arce of unleashing a political persecution and of govern with sentences and rulings after the decision of the Constitutional Court that disowned him as head of the Movement towards Socialism (MAS), and assured that – despite everything – he will run for the presidency in 2025.
Arce no longer needs anyone else, with two judges from the Constitutional Court he can governMorales said on the coca growers’ radio station, Kawsachun Coca, from his fiefdom of Chapare in central Bolivia, where he barricaded himself after the prosecutor’s office initiated an investigation for the alleged abuse of a minor – with whom he had a daughter. in 2016, while he was president.
Morales has refused to respond to justice, alleging that this is a armed case for get him out of the race in the presidential elections. Together with his bases, he led a 23-day road blockade that caused a shortage of food and fuel in the surrounding cities in the midst of one of the worst economic crises in the country and that, however, ended up weakening him politically.
The former president called the leadership of the MAS faction, which is loyal to him, to a meeting next week to define our futureand reiterated that he is a victim of persecution. I am enabled to participate in the elections and I am still president of the MAShe added.
A group of leaders and militants related to the head of the federal Executive of Bolivia, Luis Arce, announced that they will take the national headquarters of the political group, after the ruling issued by the Constitutional Court, which disavows Morales as its leader and recognizes Grover García , close to Arce, as president of said institute.
They process at 100 percent terrorism
Meanwhile, a hundred detainees in the protests seen have been sent to jail accused of terrorismand now the Ministry of Government is looking for the leaders, among them former minister Juan Ramón Quintana, Morales’ right arm.
The Bolivian prosecutor’s office requested six months of provisional prison for Ramiro Cucho and Humberto Claros, evista allies detained for crimes of terrorism, criminal association and kidnappings for his role in the blockades, and promised an investigation objective.
Morales assures that the arrests seek to censor all protests against the government.