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The government of Bolivia On Saturday he asked the State Attorney General to examine the case of the former FARC member of Argentine origin Facundo Molares (arrested in that country in 2019 during the riots in favor of the then president Evo Morales), claiming that their rights have been violated by the temporary executive of former president Jeanine Áñez.
At a press conference in La Paz, the Minister of Justice, Iván Lima, argued that the Bolivian executive respects “the independence of the judiciary”, but that “exceptionally” decided to refer to the Molares case at the request of the Argentine Foreign Minister, Felipe Solá.
“I have read the 43-page indictment of the indictment and ask the Attorney General (Juan Lanchipa) to review this indictment, I cannot find a single piece of evidence to criminalize this citizen,” he said.
The Argentine, who was serving pre-trial detention in the Chonchocoro prison in the Altiplano of La Paz, has kidney failure and is infected with COVID-19, so he is currently in hospital, explained the minister.
Lima regretted that Molares was handcuffed to the bed in the hospital, what “is understood in humanitarian law as a inhuman and degrading treatment “, which has already been corrected by the Bolivian authorities.
He also criticized the “delayed justice” situation in which the Argentine finds himself and “that no one tells him why he is accused”Therefore “no person in Bolivia can be subjected to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment”.
Who is Facundo Molares, a former FARC guerrilla detained in Bolivia?
The Argentine He was arrested in the Bolivian city of Yapacaní on November 14, 2019, accused of having participated in riots with groups that defended the management of the then president Evo Morales. The next day, the Farc party declared that Molares had been a dissident in the peace process since 2017.
The former guerrilla, known as ‘Camilo Fierro’, went into an “induced coma” due to injuries sustained during a clash between groups linked and opposed to former president Evo Morales in the eastern city of Montero, according to information of the police. Bolivian.
In that clash, 2 civic activists who were protesting against irregularities in the 2019 general election were killed by bullet holes, nullified amid charges of fraud in favor of Evo Morales, which are under criminal investigation and which he denies.
In the midst of that crisis, Evo Morales resigned from the presidency in November 2019 denouncing an alleged coup against him and left the country first in Mexico and then in Argentina, where he remained for almost a year.
His party, the Movement for Socialism (MAS), returned to power with the electoral victory of Luis Arce in the recent general elections with 55.1% of the vote.
The Argentine government of Alberto Fernández, ally of the MAS, reported last October on the presentation of an official note to the court in charge of the case marking the “urgency” to consider ending the preventive detention of Molares.
The Argentine family has assured it came to Bolivia to work as a photojournalist and that it had nothing to do with the alleged facts, other than asking for his repatriation.
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