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Some news about Evo in the selftext, it's now confirmed by the government itself that it was bolivian policemen who fired at him (lemmygrad.ml)

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https://x.com/evoespueblo/status/1851575983821742513

Quite a few talks these last days apparently, from indigenous policemen saying that they knew it was policemen who fired at Evo and the persons with him.
The government now isn't saying that Evo staged the attempt, and recognize that it was policemen that fired at him, but says that it was justified because Evo was escaping from a checkpoint for anti-narcotics operations and 'fled from'&'fired at' them unprovoked(, Del Castillo showed videos in which Evo can be seen saying that he himself had shot at the tires of the cars).

Here're two articles in these community notes :

https://www.lostiempos.com/actualidad/pais/20241028/del-castillo-evo-huyo-reten-control-atropello-uniformado-disparo-policia

Government Minister Eduardo del Castillo stated in a press conference today, Monday, that the former president fled from a routine police checkpoint for anti-narcotics operations, after which a pursuit ensued. Morales allegedly ran over a police officer and fired at the officers.
Del Castillo questioned Morales’ flight, his possession of weapons, and requested that his vehicle undergo a gunpowder residue test.
Additionally, he announced the initiation of criminal proceedings against the former president for attempted murder.
Although videos shared by Radio Kawsachun Coca, which supports Evo Morales Ayma, show an alleged attack on the vehicle carrying Morales and other companions, the footage does not show the moment when the former president allegedly attacked the police.
However, hours later, Morales confirmed he had used a firearm "to defend himself."
"We ducked down, since they were blocking us, we sped up, ran a fair bit, and the second car following us barely made it across, it kept following us, caught up, (I heard) more shots. I shot at the tire of the car that was there, it couldn’t keep going, and we quickly switched to the second car, and they kept shooting," Morales said in an interview with Kawsachun Coca on Sunday.

https://www.dw.com/es/bolivia-gobierno-acusa-a-morales-de-evadir-control-y-disparar/a-70622679 :

Del Castillo described that the car did not want to stop and that shots were fired from inside the group of agents.
According to the minister, this vehicle also ran over a police officer, and even backed up to try to finish him off.

Well, what's your opinion, (i barely took more than a dozen minutes to document myself on that, so )do you know more about this ?

Addition : Del Castillo also suddenly seized more than 21 tons(!) of cocaine, the highest in years, what a coincidence...

Keep in mind that this conspiracy could have also happened behind the back of Luis Arce, who knows...
I find hard to believe Arce would have tried to assassinate Evo, but he's still attacking him in lawfare and his speeches, so weird...

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

Right after the BRICS summit no less. The capitalists are getting scared

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Very weird stuff. We need more info to correctly understand this

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

If anyone here is motivated enough to search through https://www.facebook.com/RadioKawsachunCoca, it seems like the article was mistaken when it said that Evo recognized having shot at the tires of the car, he was apparently recounting in his weekly emission what happened under tension, and quickly said that "he" fired instead of "they" fired.
I'm less than sure to have correctly understood what i wrote above. Usually i wouldn't make such correction without looking for more infos, but my spanish is bad and i don't have time for that(, i already spent a lot of time arguing on lemmy.world these last days), so if anyone's interested&motivated, they could find the extract and see if it was an honest mistake or just another dishonest accusation from Arce's government.
It also seems worth adding that they refused.
Finally, we don't know if Arce received pressure/threats from foreign governments of what would happen if Evo became president, i.d.k., just thinking out loud here, it wouldn't really make sense otherwise...

Edit : Yeah, ok, the mistake is really obvious, no need to check :

"We ducked down, since they were blocking us, we sped up, ran a fair bit, and the second car following us barely made it across, it kept following us, caught up, (I heard) more shots. I shot at the tire of the car that was there, it couldn’t keep going, and we quickly switched to the second car, and they kept shooting," Morales said in an interview with Kawsachun Coca on Sunday.

The "policemen" obviously shot at the tire of their car and that's why they switched to the second car, otherwise the sentence makes no sense.
They would be dead without a second car.

Another proof that the Arce government is lying with their testimony of policemen being shot at "confirmed" by Evo Morales Ayma's testimony. He's likely to be the culprit in regard to his lies&behavior.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There seems to be a coordinated political assassination campaign against Evo calling him a pedophile. I don't doubt anything from men in power, it could have some truth in it. But this seems to be coming precisely from government supporters of Arce. And they were very silent when the same government archived prosecution against Evo in the early months of government.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah, it was already the case with J.Añez coup, i can't remember when i've ever seen another astroturfing campaign like that one. You had dozens of accounts with pictures, infographics and videos accusing him of being a drug dealer, a pedophile and rapist, ..., the end justifies the means or w/e. And then it suddenly completely disappeared, and the last time i checked >90% of the comments posted back then were deleted(, i.i.r.c.).
I've quickly checked their "arguments", but it's more insults and insinuations than real proofs, the lawfare against his "human trafficking" is shamelessly using again these rumors because Evo is ahead in the polls, just like J.Añez did, they don't really have anything solid.
Now such accounts are kinda re-appearing but it's still less(, in number and intensity,) than back then.
Luis Arce doesn't have any astroturfing campaign against him. Don't really know what to add and a bit lazy to document myself more extensively on these accusations, and journalists hate him. At first sight a paternity test should be enough to reach a conclusion, w/e...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Please don't collapse Bolivia 🤞