Evo Morales accused the new justice minister of being corrupt and held him responsible for his disqualification
Evo Morales carry on with yours crusade against the government Luis Arce. This Friday, their complaints focused on Cesar Silesnew Attorney General Bolivia, whom he accused of corruption and held responsible for his disqualification in the 2020 elections.
Siles, who took office this Thursday, after Ivan Lima would resign irrevocably“, “that’s it too involved in corruption casesone of them is related to the purchase of a house for the family Choquehuanca (Vice President),” Evo began to write on his social networks, where he subsequently added that with his appointment, the executive will strive for arresting several leaders loyal to him and who support their demands and their force measures.
“It is very clear that his purpose, message and goal is to arrest our leading sisters and brothers, as it has already started (happened) with the illegal arrest of colleagues from Caranavi, Oruro and this Thursday in Potosí,” he assured. .
Likewise, the former president accused Siles of being responsible for rejecting his candidacy for the Bolivian Senate in 2020 -under Arce’s administration- for lack of provable residence in the country. It should be recalled that a year earlier, in 2019, there were massive protests against Evo’s frauds, which forced him to flee the country to Argentina.
These transitions and changes in the justice portfolio occurred shortly after the former president completed his term this Monday march which he led with his followers more than 187 kilometers across the Altiplano and after arriving in La Paz, he demanded concrete measures from the government to solve problems such as dollar shortage, lack of fuel and increase in commodity prices.
“If Lucho (Arce) wants to continue in government, first he has to change the drug ministers, the corrupt ministers, the ‘druggies’, the racists, the fascists, within 24 hours, and if he can’t do that, he will know what to do.”he said then, pointing in particular to the Minister of the Presidency, Maria Nela Prada; to the head of the government portfolio (inside), Eduardo del Castillo; and their public works and justice counterparts, Edgar Montaño and Limeand indicating the resignation of the President.
On the part of the ruling party, they saw Eve’s words as a threat to their management – something they had warned about in the past as “coup attempt”with which I would search Andronico Rodriguez to take over the leadership of the country and qualify him as a candidate in 2025 – and condemned it to the international community ultimatum to the democratic order.
In a statement released this Tuesday by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a categorical rejection of “any kind of blackmail or conditioning against the will of the people expressed in elections” and was called to work towards a “peaceful solution” through dialogue instead of protest.
Regardless of the definition of these transitions, which have been going on for years, analyst Marcelo Silvia regretted that the main losers of these episodes are “masists (movement for socialism) in general” considering that “Neither Arce nor Evo will be able to recover before the elections from the spectacle they have put on during these three years.”
(With information from EFE)