Bolivia’s national police announced this Friday (11) that they arrested the father of the woman who accuses former president Evo Morales (2006-2019) of having raped her when she was a teenager.
According to information from the newspaper El Deber, the Public Ministry reported that between 2014 and 2015, Morales created a “youth guard”, “made up of people aged 14 and 15, called ‘Generation Evo’”.
The parents of the young woman who accuses the former president would have enrolled her in this juvenile custody “with the sole purpose of being able to ascend politically and obtain benefits to ‘profit’, that is, to get what they wanted in exchange for their youngest daughter”.
According to the prosecutor’s office, the parents would have obtained in this way “all kinds of benefits, trips, [até] public positions”, and Morales even instructed that the young woman’s mother be a candidate for the Departmental Legislative Assembly of Tarija for his party, Movement to Socialism (MAS).
The candidacy was reportedly barred due to a criminal record, and the mother was appointed director of a unit of the Gran Chaco regional government. The defense of the young woman’s parents did not comment on the prosecution’s accusations.
Last week, Bolivian Justice Minister Cesar Siles announced that Morales is being investigated for rape of a vulnerable person and human trafficking.
He said that the former president is suspected of having raped a 15-year-old teenager in 2016. The victim became pregnant and the child had Morales’ name registered as the father on her birth certificate, Siles said.
The former president says he is a victim of judicial persecution, orchestrated by the current president of Bolivia, Luis Arce, and claims that the case has already been investigated and archived in 2020.
Morales was supposed to give testimony on Thursday in Tarija, but his defense filed a petition alleging that there is a constitutional decision that orders the case to be processed in Cochabamba, where the former president lives.
The Tarija Public Prosecutor’s Office said it will request a coercive conduct order for Morales to testify.
On Tuesday (8), members of the former president’s group within MAS announced that a woman who says she was a victim of harassment and abuse of power by Arce filed a complaint against the current president of Bolivia.
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