Bolivian community leaders asked the federal government this week to investigate after an opposition lawmaker claimed that socialist ex-president Evo Morales, a fugitive charged with pedophilia who has been hiding for months in his stronghold Cochabamba, has fled to Mexico.

“Evo Morales is not in Bolivia anymore, he is in Mexico,” lawmaker Edgar Zegarra Bernal told local media on Monday. Bernal – opposed to the government of current President Rodrigo Paz, a centrist – condemned the government for not doing enough to imprison Morales given the various outstanding criminal charges against him.

The claims have prompted pressure from community…

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