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Well, it’s true, lawfare does exist

A Bolivian court has issued an arrest warrant for Evo Morales, the country’s former president, after he failed to attend a pretrial hearing for allegedly having sex with a minor.

He has been charged with “aggravated rape with human trafficking” for allegedly having a baby girl with an unnamed 15-year-old while in office in 2016, when he was 57.

The girl’s parents are said to have agreed to the relationship in return for “political favours”.

The former president, who is refusing to leave The Chapare, one of Bolivia’s two coca-producing regions, where he remains wildly popular as a one-time rabble rousing coca-growers’ union leader, has responded to the charges by calling on the government not to interfere with his “family”.

“This is more proof that this is a right-wing government that does everything to comply with the orders of the White House,” Mr Morales added about the accusations, which first came to light under the 2019-2020 conservative government of the interim president Jeanine Añez.

So do dodgy politicians having sex with underage birds exist. If only we had a reliable and trustworthy system to discover the truth in such cases.

6 thoughts on “Well, it’s true, lawfare does exist”

  1. Banana Republics. What an utter joke they and their corrupt judicial systems are.

    Next thing you know they’ll be convicting him of having non-consensual sex several decades ago in a changing room with a politically motivated middle-aged woman who’s into rape fantasies despite the complete lack of any evidence and then fining him nearly $100m for saying it never happened.

  2. Peruvian Presidente Oscar R. Benavides famously said: “For my friends everything, for my enemies the law.”

  3. It’ll be interesting to see what TTK comes up with to stop Nigel. Perhaps he can ask his mate Huw?

    Or get Lord Alli involved…

  4. A very quick Google tells me that the age of consent in Bolivia is currently 14 years…….

    Maybe it got lowered to 14 recently.

  5. “dodgy politicians having sex with underage birds exist”

    The Americans have a system whereby a President’s daughter writes a diary explaining that when she was a teenager her father enjoyed showering with her. Then the contents of the diary become common knowledge.

    Then President Vegetable is arrested and … Oops, no; that’s the bit that is a fantasy.

  6. dearime @ 1.32. Apologies, but pendant alert – she was 12, he was 49.

    This sort of thing is absolutely no problem for the roper’s though. They think a 52 year old ‘thighing’ with a 6 year old and refraining from consummating until the girl is 9 is perfect behaviour and should be emulated…….

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