LA PAZ, BOLIVIA.- A new element comes to light around the complaint made against the former president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, when last Thursday he was formally accused of having had an affair with a minor.
The current government, led by Jeanine Áñez, announced that Morales had allegedly had a secret relationship with a minor since she was 14 years old, for which a process was opened against her for crimes of rape, trafficking and trafficking. persons.
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Scandal
The possible love affair was discovered, according to Bolivian authorities, when on July 6 some young men were detained while they were driving in a state vehicle in Cochabamba, which had been reported stolen.
Among those arrested was a 19-year-old girl – Morales’ alleged partner – who according to the report had messages, videos and photographs on her cell phone that linked her to the former president.
The police report establishes that the young woman who has been identified only as Noemí M.C He would have accompanied Morales to soccer games and trips in the span of five years from the beginning of the relationship and had also traveled to Mexico and Argentina, countries where the socialist leader has lived since his exile in November 2019.
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Threats and fear
After the controversy and the opening of the investigation, the young woman allegedly wrote a letter addressed to the internal defender of the Bolivian people, Nadia cruz, in which he explains that “since July 6 my life is a nightmare.”
The young woman claims that she has been harassed by the police and even by the government ministry, the press and by strangers on social networks.
“There were several policemen who at all times called me a liar, insulted me, said bad words, laughed at me, said: ‘Say you are Evo’s girl, that you traveled to Mexico and Argentina,'” said the young woman.
The female also denounced that they exposed their privacy, dignity and integrity as a woman, so going to the official was a decision she made after suffering a “very sensitive psychological and emotional situation.”
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In the alleged letter written by the young woman and which was disseminated by the media Page seven, also denies having been captured aboard a state vehicle, since she assures that that night she and her family were having dinner at her home, from where she and her sisters were taken by force and detained without an arrest warrant and without explanations. .
In addition, he reveals that one of his sisters was brutally beaten on one of her knees, while another of his sisters had been transferred to a criminal center accused of sedition and terrorism.
After several hours “arbitrarily” detained, the young woman and her assaulted sister were released, for which reason they remained at home for several days in fear of going out despite the physical injuries that their relative still had on his limb.
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It was on Sunday, July 12, when, according to her, they went to look for their grandmother to check her sister’s knee, where they were followed by policemen who took their phones and put them back in jail, where they were also stripped and searched. .
After being released, according to the young woman, it was when the bombardment of threats began to make her say that she had a relationship with the former head of state, the latter has said that he will not speak on the subject, as he considers it “a dirty war of the government of facto “.
Morales, 60, also faces accusations of having carried out an alleged fraud in his country’s elections, which generated a wave of opposition and protests that eventually removed him from power last November.
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