Bolivia’s ex-president Evo Morales will return to his homeland from his exile in neighboring Argentina, after a court lifted the arrest warrant resting on him.
The return of the ousted Evo Morale has been the big issue in Bolivian politics, since his party MAS by far won the election just over a week ago.
Yesterday, Morales’ party comrade, the newly elected senator Andrónico Rodríguez, announced that Morales will enter Bolivia on November 9, that is, the day after the ceremony when the socialist Luis Arce becomes the country’s new president.
Morales will travel in on the 9th and on the 11th he will be received in Cochabamba, it will be a historic day for us, Andrónico Rodríguez told the TV channel Telesur yesterday.
Several lawsuits are pending ex-president. Some are about his role in violent demonstrations against the interim government which, according to the indictment, prevented important medical material from reaching the hospitals in the capital La Paz during the pandemic.
He is also accused of pedophilia, after allegations that he had an affair with a minor woman.
Evo Morales has denied the allegations and said he will defend himself on the spot. A verdict last week overturned the arrest warrant issued against the MAS leader.
Bolivia’s first indigenous president, who is in the majority in Bolivia, ruled the country for 14 years. He was deposed in an uprising, supported by both the military and the police, when, in spite of the constitution, he tried to be elected for a fourth term last year.
Since then, he has ruled the socialist party MAS from its exile in Argentina. In the October 18 election, MAS won the presidential election with 55 percent of the vote and the party managed to gain a majority in both houses of parliament.
Opponents fear Evo Morale’s return. They believe that it is Morales, and not the future President Luis Arce, who has the real power in Bolivia and they believe that the Socialists will now avenge the persecution they were subjected to during the interim government.
Something that both Luis Arce and Evo Morales himself have said they will not do.
Several lawsuits are already pending against interim president Jeanine Añez and its ministers, including for two massacres in connection with the overthrow of Evo Morales last year.
Source: ICELAND NEWS