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Home » Bolivian Journalist Denounces Government Persecution

Bolivian Journalist Denounces Government Persecution

Sabrina Martín by Sabrina Martín
March 1, 2016
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Carlos Valverde will take the Evo Morales administration to international courts over alleged harassment.
Carlos Valverde could take the Evo Morales administration to international courts over alleged harassment. (Youtube)

EspañolCarlos Valverde, the Bolivian journalist who unveiled the latest corruption scandals involving President Evo Morales, has denounced that he’s being being unduly targeted by the government.

The reporter is considering filing a complaint over what he believes is a political persecution carried out by Ramiro Guerrero, Bolivia’s Attorney General.

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“I believe there is harassment against me …  I will report this situation before international organizations because the attorney general is acting as a politician within the judicial branch, and that is not right,” he said on Friday, February 26.

The allegations come after Evo Morales’s former mistress, Gabriela Zapata, currently under arrest over Valverde’s reporting, filed a complaint against the reporter for “discrimination.”

On February 26, the Public Prosecutor’s Office accepted Zapata’s complaint.

Bolivia’s ruling party, Movement for Socialism (MAS), assures that every individual “affected” by one of Valverde’s reports will take the journalist to court.

Valverde revealed earlier this month on his television show Todo por Hoy that the Chinese firm CAMC Engineer, where Zapata is a manager, obtained lucrative state contracts in Bolivia. He also unveiled Zapata’s love relationship with President Morales, with whom she had a child.

Soon after the scandal erupted, Bolivian officials accused Valverde of being an undercover agent employed by the U.S. government in order to “fabricate the influence peddling case to hurt” Morales’s reelection referendum.

According to the Minister of the Presidency Juan Ramón Quintana, the U.S. government is actively reaching out to journalists like Valverde and critical media outlets to “attack and undermine Bolivia’s government.”

Morales Forced to Admit Affair

President Evo Morales admitted that he and Gabriela Zapata had a son in 2007, but was quick to assure that he died soon upon birth.

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Evo Morales admitted that he had a son with Gabriela Zapata. (Página Siete)

“Obviously, I met Gabriela Zapata Montaño in 2005. It is true that she was my partner. In 2007 we had a child, but unfortunately, he died. We had some problems and then we grew distant,” Morales said on February 5.

However, Morales denied having favored Zapata with state contracts for the Chinese firm she ran in Bolivia.

Carlos Valverde had accused Zapata of exerting undue influence in the customs agency, the state-run mining firm Comibol, and state-controlled Union Bank.

Furthermore, the reporter claimed that she introduced herself to businessmen as a government representative.

“This is not a conspiracy, this is the search for accountability. It’s journalism,” Valverde argued.

Decisive Information

[adrotate group=”7″]On February 21, Evo Morales suffered his first major electoral defeat as Bolivians voted against a constitutional amendment that would have allowed him to run for president again in 2019.

Before Valverde made the scandal public, polls showed that the yes option was the favorite to win the referendum. The trend gradually reversed as the corruption scandal grew.

Public opinion punished the Bolivian president’s reelection bid. Morales will have to leave power once his mandate expires in 2020.

Translated by Daniel Duarte.

Tags: Carlos ValverdeCorruption in BoliviaCorruption scandalEvo MoralesGabriela ZapataMAS
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Sabrina Martín is a Venezuelan journalist, commentator, and editor based in Valencia with experience in corporate communication.

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