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Bolivian prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant for Evo Morales over sex with an underage girl. The underlying allegations, made public in 2020, are credible. AND Morales is in a pre-election bid to reclaim leadership of his party from current president Luis Arce.
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Evidence lending credibility to the allegations includes the victim's social media posts, her recent statements to the press, travel records, testimony from her father, and the appearance of Evo's name on her child's birth certificate.
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Despite multiple opportunities, Morales has usually deflected rather than denied the allegations, once challenging a reporter by saying, "You don’t mess with family. The family is sacred."
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My prior reporting on the broader crisis within the MAS-IPSP: nacla.org/evo-morales-center-firestorm And on the sexual abuse allegations: woborders.blog/2024/11/08/evo-statutory-rape-charges/?_thumbnail_id=4986