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Former President of Bolivia, Evo Morales This Monday he declared that during the alleged armed attack that he suffered on Sunday in the tropics of Cochabamba, his political and trade union stronghold, neither he nor any of his comrades were armed when On Sunday, he said he shot out the tire of a car that was chasing him.

“There is a lot of evidence that we were ambushed, but they say we fired. “None of us carried any weapons with us.”Morales announced this on his social networks.

He made the publication after Government Minister Eduardo del Castillo accused him of shooting several police officers with firearms and wounding one when they carried out a routine anti-drug check of vehicles on the road.

Apparently, according to the minister, the car in which Morales was traveling He also hit a police officer. which presented a fracture of the tibia and fibula.

What does the government minister say?

Government Minister Eduardo del Castillo called the former president a “liar” and indicated that Morales’ driver did not want to stop when ordered by the agents and increased his speed.

He also said that the video of the alleged attack on the former ruler “They are being edited,” and he said that “nobody believes him anymore.”

“No one and nothing will save him from this criminal trial. “No one who attacks a police officer can go unpunished (…), no one can try to kill a police officer and become a victim,” he added.

Del Castillo explained that police are conducting vehicle checks as the operation has been going on for several days. “Tropical Storm III” in the tropics of Cochabamba, which is Morales’ political and trade union stronghold and where he has several houses.

According to Del Castillo, the region has most cocaine and base paste laboratories in Bolivia, and for this reason, anti-drug operations were intensified.

“Starting from 5 am they (police) check 15 cars without incident, but car 16 did not stop although the agents showed their IDs,” the minister clarified.

Del Castillo said that the car did not want to stop and that Shots were fired from inside at a group of agents. Apparently, the deputy said, the car Morales was riding in also hit the police officer.

He added that The pilot tried to retreat to finish him off. However, the agent managed to avoid the second attack. The police officer suffered a broken tibia and fibula and had to undergo surgery in the Santa Cruz region.

A police car tried to follow the car Morales was riding in, but He got more shots Therefore, the driver stopped, the minister explained.

Del Castillo reported that the vehicle that bypassed the checkpoint managed to evade agents and that later via social media It turned out that Evo Morales was in the car.

“Mr. Morales, if you have nothing to hide deliver the vehicle to the Bolivian police for micro-vacuuming and know what was inside the car; Mr. Morales, who gave them permission to carry firearms, who were the people who were armed in their car,” the minister asked the ex-president.

He added that Morales’ supporters went to the army barracks where the vehicles were located and They stole them and burned them to “destroy evidence” against the former president.

What does Evo Morales say?

“It took them 30 hours to create the lie. Following the CIA (US Central Intelligence Agency) playbook, the dictatorship of lies now wants to turn the victim into a criminal,” Morales said.

The former president stated this on Sunday in his radio program on the TV channel Kausachun Koka what happened a few minutes before, while being transported in a car on a road in the tropics of Cochabamba.

In the middle of his detailed story admitted to shooting at a second car that was allegedly following him.

“The second car that was chasing us also crossed the road, followed us and caught up with us, (I heard) more shots. I shot out the tire of the car that was there (…) and we quickly changed cars and left from there,” said the former ruler.

Morales denounced that President Luis Arce and Interior Ministers Del Castillo and Defense Ministers Edmundo Novillo, They made a plan to take his life.

For his part, the minister Novillo denied there was a plan to kill him and stated that the narcotics agents had arrived at the Ninth Army Division to be able to infiltrate their territory and be evacuated by helicopter because there was a wounded agent there, an event that to him was an “emergency” rather than a plan to attack on the former president.

“We fully open to international investigation by ALBA or CELAC to expose this anti-popular and murderous government,” Morales said on his networks.

It all happens in the middle Road blockade carried out by Morales supporters 15 days ago in the center of the country to protect the former president from a possible arrest warrant for investigation human trafficking and statutory rape related to the alleged rape of a minor.

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Morales and Arce at a distance from the end of 2021 due to a struggle for control of the ruling Movement towards Socialism (MAS) and the Bolivian executive.

(according to information from EFE)