Bolivian interim government regrets “lack of coordination” between the Prosecutor's Office and the Police for the arrest of 2 former Evo Morales officials who had safe passages and intended to leave the country

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(CNN Spanish) - The Bolivian Government Minister, Arturo Murillo, lamented that two former Evo Morales officials, who had safe passages to travel, were arrested when they intended to leave the country, this Saturday morning.

"Unfortunately there has been an uncoordination between the Public Ministry and the National Police and this morning, 3 days after the safe-conduct has occurred, they have waited for them at the airport and apprehended them," Murillo said from Santa Cruz.

The former Minister of Mining, César Navarro, and the former Minister of Rural Development, Pedro Damián Dorado, who were isolated at the Mexican embassy in La Paz, were apprehended at the El Alto airport, when they intended to travel to Mexico, according to the agency Bolivian news, ABI.

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After the clarification, the Bolivian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement on Saturday indicating that the Mexican embassy moved both to the El Alto airport "with the guarantee given by the safe-conducts extended by the Bolivian government."

“There should not be this lack of coordination, if you had the orders of urgency, you should not have issued safe-conduct, that is what the rule mandates, but as this had already been given and the faith of the State was already committed, it has been committed and At this moment they are doing that. These people are going to leave the country with all the guarantees of the Bolivian State, ”said Murillo.

CNN is trying to contact the Bolivian Prosecutor and Police to obtain more information about what happened.

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The former president, Evo Morales, denounced the detention of his former officials through social networks. “Even in the worst Latin American dictatorships, safe conduct was respected,” Morales wrote on his Twitter account.

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