(16 Dec 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tarija, Bolivia – 16 December 2024
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1. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Sandra Gutiérrez, regional prosecutor:
"Charges of human trafficking were formally presented today. There is, and it has been for a while, an arrest warrant for these two people because they were absent the day they were mandated. An arrest warrant was issued in accordance with article 224 of the Criminal Procedures Code."
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2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Sandra Gutiérrez, regional prosecutor:
"There are threats of different types, and I don’t want to be an accomplice. We respect life because that’s what is written in our political constitution. That’s the reason why I didn’t want to make public that there is an arrest warrant against Juan Evo Morales Ayma."
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3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Sandra Gutiérrez, regional prosecutor:
"The charges laid out today consider the possibility of fleeing and obstruction. We are making a case for cautionary measures and we will request preventive detention for these two people."
STORYLINE:
Prosecutors in Bolivia on Monday sought the arrest of former President Evo Morales in connection to a sexual abuse investigation involving his alleged fathering of a child with a 15-year-old girl.
The arrest warrant, which still must be approved by a judge, was issued after Morales defied an order to testify in the case.
Morales, a former coca grower who ruled Bolivia for 13 years until 2019, has been holed up in the rural area of Chapare, ringed by loyal supporters since talk of his arrest first surfaced in September.
Morales, 65, is alleged to have had a child with a teenage girl in 2016 — a sexual relationship that would have constituted statutory rape under Bolivian law.
Morales hasn’t commented yet on the arrest order but previously denied any wrongdoing and accused his handpicked successor, fellow leftist Luis Arce, of conspiring with his enemies to prevent him from running in next year’s presidential election.
On Monday, police were repelled in a standoff with Morales supporters, who accused the authorities of acting violently.
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