Bolivian prosecutor's office calls former officials to testify in coup case

La Paz, August 10 (RHC)-- The Secretary General of the Bolivian Attorney General's Office, Edwin Quispe, confirmed on Monday that the agency summoned three officials related to the de facto government to testify this week.

Quispe said that on Tuesday, the advisor of the ultra-right activist Samuel Medina, Roberto Moscoso, will have to give testimony on the events of 2019, where the coup d'état against then President Evo Morales was perpetrated.

"For Wednesday, we are summoning the advisor and head of campaign of Comunidad Ciudadana (CC), Ricardo Paz, and on Thursday, Mr. Óscar Ortíz, former senator and former minister of Jeanine Áñez will be summoned." 

Since the South American country reestablished its constitutional government with the election of President Luis Arce, authorities continue to intensify investigations to determine the degree of guilt of activists who participated in the illegal coup.

Likewise, former President Evo Morales, leader of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) expressed his "concerns about the new threats to democracy and our democratic and cultural revolution" on behalf of his group along with the more than 15 national organizations present.

"We saw in the Homeland Day session, how a group of opposition assembly members shouted "David President" in front of @LuchoXBolivia in an attempt to divide and confront us," Evo Morales previously said on his Twitter account in reference to the solemn session of the Legislative Assembly last Friday where opponents interrupted the president's message to the nation.

"It is the strategy that the right wing will use seeking to defeat us because it knows that united we are invincible," Evo Morales emphasized.

The Prosecutor's Office summoned to testify this week the main operators of the heads of the right-wing parties that executed the 2019 coup d'état.

Among those summoned are the head of campaign of the Comunidad Ciudadana party, Ricardo Paz, and the ex-senator and ex-minister of Jeanine Áñez, Oscar Ortiz, who will make a statement, according to the secretary general of the State Prosecutor's Office, Edwin Quispe.

In this way, investigations continue into the 2019 coup d'état that even received the support of the governments of Ecuador (Lenín Moreno) and Argentina (Mauricio Macri), with the sending of weapons to repress the Bolivian people who took to the streets after the disavowal of Evo's victory and the takeover of the pdoer by Jeanine Áñez.