The president of Bolivia, Rodrigo Paz, assured this Friday that former president Evo Morales knows that “his days are numbered,” referring to the fact that “he will not be able to escape justice,” which has an arrest warrant for a case related to human trafficking.
“He is hidden in Chapare, does not sleep well, has a series of backup and information teams that move him from one place to another, but at any moment that team will fail and he will not be able to escape justice,” said the Bolivian leader in an interview on the Argentine channel A24 regarding the indigenous leader, president between 2006 and 2019, whom he links to protests and road blockades in the country.
“He in his conscience knows that his days are numbered, that sooner or later he will have to face justice, sooner or later,” Paz reflected on the situation facing the South American country, emphasizing that his priority is that there is “not one more death because of him,” referring to the protests that have paralyzed the country and which he attributes to groups influenced by the former president.
“He is a power delirious and is even afraid of his own shadow. When Evo walks, he sees a shadow beside him and believes it is a conspiracy, but it is his own shadow and his self-destruction is within himself because the anxiety for power will destroy his organization, but it is clear that he has powerful financial backing and is causing extraordinary harm to Bolivia,” he indicated.
Likewise, he pointed out that the financing of the protests would come from illicit activities linked to drug trafficking in the Chapare region. “There are decent people who work honestly, but there is also a large margin of coca leaf production that goes to drug trafficking and from there resources come for these mobilizations,” he said about the protests, which he linked to an “attempted coup” against the Paz government, which entered the Casa Grande del Pueblo last November.
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Paz emphasized that his government has been in charge for six months and that it seeks to also address the “historical unmet demands” through dialogue with the affected groups. “We are firm on dialogue for problem resolution and I believe we are very close to it,” he said.
“There are people with legitimate demands, we must be very clear, but behind those demands has come all this economic force from Chapare that has distorted this whole cycle of demands and that is an attempted coup. Obviously, they have failed,” he said.
In this regard, he ignored demands to step down, stating that “critics will have to put up with it” because he will adhere to the “popular vote” that “indicated what the path is.” “It is five years of the Constitution, which is what I must fulfill,” he stressed.
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