Bolivia Orders Arrest of Evo Morales for Failing to Appear at Child Trafficking Trial
- The First Criminal Sentencing Court of Tarija declared former President Evo Morales in contempt and ratified arrest and travel-ban orders after he missed his child trafficking trial opening related to a 15-year-old girl.
- Prosecutors allege Morales had a relationship with a minor during his presidency, presenting over 170 pieces of evidence, and claim the girl's parents consented in exchange for favors; the mother is also under investigation.
- Morales has been hiding since 2024 in the Chapare region, his political stronghold, where locals protect him from arrest amid political tensions with current President Rodrigo Paz.
- Morales and his legal team denounce the trial as political persecution, refuse to appear in court claiming procedural irregularities, and he is organizing a march against government policies amid political discord with President Paz.
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Evo Morales fails to appear at minor-trafficking trial; court orders his arrest
The First Criminal Sentencing Court of Tarija, in southern Bolivia, on Monday declared former president Evo Morales (2006-2019) in contempt and ratified the arrest and travel-ban orders against him after he failed to attend the opening of his oral trial for alleged aggravated human trafficking. The same measure was applied to Idelsa Pozo Saavedra, mother of the alleged victim. Judge Carlos Oblitas suspended the proceedings without a new date, pen
The former president takes refuge in the north of the country surrounded by his followers and refuses his trial for dealing with a 16-year-old teenager.
A court in Bolivia ordered the arrest of former President Evo Morales for not appearing in the trial in which he is pointing out to commit the crime of human trafficking.It was the Court of First Judgment of Tarija, in southern Bolivia, which declared him in absentia for failing to comply with previous summonses to appear.Evo Morales accumulated several statements in absentia because on more than one occasion he did not comply with the requested…
This order has been issued for failing to turn for the third time, upon request, to a trial against him, where he is accused of having had a child with a minor while he was president, and of having favored his family.
El Periódico
A court in the Bolivian department of Tarija again declared Monday the rebellion of former President Evo Morales over his decision not to appear at the inaugural hearing of the trial against him for aggravated trafficking in persons and an alleged relationship with a minor with whom he allegedly had a daughter during his government. In addition, he ordered the capture of the man, a predominant figure in that Andean country between 2006 and 2019,…
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