The Bolivian government accused, on Monday, October 28, former President Evo Morales of having “staged” The attempted murder of which he said he was a victim on Sunday, he assured that the event occurred after he tried to escape from police control. “Mr. Morales, no one believes your story, but you will have to answer before the Bolivian courts for attempted murder” against a member of the police, said the Minister of the Interior, Eduardo del Castillo, at a press conference.
The former president (2006-2019) denounced, on Sunday, in a video that he was the victim of a shooting attack aboard the vehicle in which he was traveling in the Chapare region, in the center of the country: “Elite agents of the Bolivian State tried to assassinate me. » According to him, the car was hit fourteen times by bullets and its driver was injured, while he was on his way to his weekly program on Kawsachun Coca radio, in Cochabamba, his stronghold.
But Del Castillo gave another version of the incident, explaining that as part of the fight against drug trafficking in Chapare, one of the main coca-producing areas of the country, checkpoints had been installed. According to his version of events, police stationed at one of them told one of the vehicles in Mr. Morales’ caravan to slow down, but the driver ignored the order. “Instead of slowing down, they accelerated, they took out weapons (…) and shot »declared Mr. del Castillo, specifying that a police officer was injured when he was hit by one of the vehicles.
