LA PAZ, Oct 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) — La Paz’s Departmental Court of Justice (TDJ) President Jorge Quino announced that the accusation and apprehension orders issued against former Bolivian president Evo Morales are overridden.
The judicial authorities declared valid a request for freedom filed by Morales’ defense, considering that the ex-president’s fundamental rights were violated.
Morales’ lawyer Wilfredo Chavez said Evo should appear in court to testify. If he did not, he would have been declared a rebel and Interpol would have been activated a Red Alert on him.
“That is why we presented a request for an annulment. Today the judge accepted that request and the entire process against him was annulled, both the arrest warrant issued within Bolivia and the lawsuit itself.
However, Chavez stressed that the other defendants are still in the process. “The entire trial was not annulled, only Evo was excluded. There are about 15 other trials open in the ordinary justice system, related to Evo.”
The complaint against Evo was presented by the de facto Interior Minister Arturo Murillo over alleged sedition and terrorism charges, a few days after the 2019 coup d’état.
The de-facto government asked Interpol for an arrest warrant against Morales; but the request was rejected by the international organization, considering that the charges had a political connotation.
Meanwhile, President-elect Luis Arce proposed to resume relations with Venezuela and Cuba, two countries the coup-born regime had severed ties with.
Arce stressed his government’s willingness to maintain relations with any country over the premise of mutual respect and sovereignty.
“We are going to re-establish all relations. This government has acted very ideologically, depriving the Bolivian people of access to Cuban medicine, Russian medicine, and advances in China,” he said. “For a purely ideological issue, it has exposed the population in a way unnecessary and harmful.”
Right after the U.S.-backed coup placed Jeanine Añez in the presidency, she expelled Cuban health workers from Bolivia and rolled back social progress made by Evo Morales’ administration.
The president-elect also warned the Organization of American States (OAS) for its behavior towards Bolivia and urged them to admit its participation in the coup and its complicity in the massacre of hundreds of Indigenous citizens that followed it.
“If it does not, we [the elected government]will work, as well as with other countries, with international organizations that respect us,” he said.
The Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) party swept to victory in Sunday’s presidential elections in Bolivia after the official vote counting showed a landslide victory of 55.10 percent of the votes. — NNN-TELESUR
