Overview

• Evo Morales, Bolivia's former president, is accused of having a relationship with a 15-year-old girl in 2015 and fathering a child with her in 2016.
• Prosecutors have charged Morales with aggravated human trafficking and requested six months of preventive detention, citing risks of flight and obstruction.
• Morales has denied the allegations, calling them a politically motivated 'judicial war' by his former ally, President Luis Arce, to block his 2025 presidential ambitions.
• The arrest warrant, issued in October but made public this week, has faced enforcement challenges due to violent road blockades by Morales' supporters in his political stronghold of Chapare.
• The case has deepened divisions within the ruling MAS party, with analysts warning of escalating political instability ahead of the upcoming elections.