MADRID 28 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) –
A court in the Bolivian region of Tarija has summoned the former president of the country Evo Morales by edict for January 14, 2025 for the crime of aggravated human trafficking after not having previously appeared to testify in the context of the case against him.
“For the consideration of the request for the application of personal precautionary measures (…) an in-person public hearing is scheduled for Tuesday, January 14, at 9:30 a.m. (local time), with news from the tax authority and others. procedural subjects”, reads the edict issued by the court, as reported by the newspaper ‘Correo del Sur’.
Likewise, it is expected that during said hearing, the judge will decide whether the former president would face the process against him in freedom or in preventive detention.
Morales is accused of human trafficking for a relationship he had in 2015 with a minor at the time, also missing, from whom a girl was born. Her parents are also accused of the same charges, since they would have consented to it in exchange for political favors. The father has been in prison since October, but it is unknown where the mother is.
For several weeks, Morales has not left the Tropics of Cochabamba, a political and social bastion, where he has the unconditional support of dozens of union and peasant organizations.
His potential arrest would further inflame tempers between his supporters and those of the president, Luis Arce. For years, both have been involved in a bitter dispute that divides Bolivia’s left and raises serious doubts about the country’s political future.