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Bolivia Orders Arrest of Ex-President Evo Morales

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Nyakundi Report

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This archive report was first published on 19 December 2019.

On December 18, 2019, Bolivia's attorney-general ordered the arrest of exiled former President Evo Morales, accusing him of sedition and terrorism.

Public prosecutors in La Paz signed a warrant for police to detain the 60-year-old Morales, who is currently in Argentina, and take him to the attorney-general's office.

Morales fled Bolivia in November after civil unrest broke out following his re-election in an October 20 poll widely dismissed as rigged.

He denounced the arrest order as

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