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Former President of Bolivia, Evo Morales (2006-2019) and leader of the ruling party, threatened this Saturday block the main roads of the Andean country if prosecutors execute a warrant for his arrest to testify in a case of “human trafficking” and “rape.”

“We need to mobilize”– said the former president during his speech at an event that brought together his followers in Sacaba, in the central region of Cochabamba, to commemorate “Decolonization Day”.

Leaders of civil society organizations defending Morales also warned that day that if an arrest warrant was issued, they would start with blockade of national roads.

“The Unity Pact and other public organizations are not making a mistake by going for greater mobilization, and for them to respect us, the government must respect the Bolivian people” – assured the former president.

According to the complaint, which is in the possession of Bolivian prosecutors, Morales may have committed crimes “human trafficking” and “rape” with a minor with whom he allegedly had a child.

The former ruler had to testify the day before before the prosecutor’s office in the southern region of Tarija, where the events allegedly took place, but he did not appear and His defense presented a legal justification.

Prosecutor Sandra Gutierrez announced that an arrest warrant would be issued against Morales. make him declare in Tarijahowever, it has not yet been implemented.

Given this statement, Ponciano Santos, leader of the ruling Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) but close to Morales, said today that they are on permanent duty. “If they touch Evo, they touch people.“, he expressed.

Since the prosecutor’s office warned him with an arrest warrant, Morales has not left Cochabamba and His followers guard the exits in the Tropics region, its political and trade union stronghold, and the headquarters of six coca growers’ federations, of which the former president is also a leader.

“I may be detained illegally and unfairly, but they will never detain you. Perhaps they have plans against our lives.but the process of change will never end,” Morales said.

In addition, the former Bolivian ruler said that Bolivia celebrates October 12th. “Decolonization Day” because the countries of America have liberated themselves from colonialism over the decades.

“This is not the day of the coming of race or civilization, This is the day of invasion, intervention, extermination of the people of America,” he said.

He called it the “Spanish conquest.” Imperialism and the right have also come, and confirmed that President Luis Arce is a “collaborator of the empire.”

Arce and Morales at a distance from the end of 2021 due to divisions in the governance of the state, which were exacerbated by the need to update the MAS national leadership and elect a candidate in the 2025 general elections.

(EFE)