BOLIVIA, La Paz, November 16, 2024 (GPA). A cable leaked by Wikileaks revealed that the government of Evo Morales expelled the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) in 2008 for “spying on the president’s girlfriends”, according to what was explained to US officials by Felipe Caceres, who at the time was Vice Minister of Social Defense.
An email sent between Karen Hooper, LatAm AOR and Paulo Gregoire, reveals the conversations on this subject under the heading “Bolivia expelled the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency for ‘spying on the president’s girlfriends’”, according to the document published on the organization’s website.
Paulo Gregoire is the one who drafted and sent on September 8, 2011 the report to Hooper on the cable leaked by Wikileaks, according to state-owned ABI on Saturday.
“Caceres reportedly told U.S. officials that the expulsion ‘had to happen because President (Evo) Morales was ‘upset because the DEA is following him, especially when he visits his girlfriends,’” states part of his report.
Morales expelled the DEA with the argument that it supported “activities of the failed coup d’état in Bolivia”, in reference to the violent protests of September of that year, encouraged by civic leaders, authorities in Santa Cruz, Beni, Pando, Tarija and Chuquisaca.
In the same report, Paulo Gregoire refers, citing the leaked cable, that the U.S. agency was expelled for “spying on the private life of President Evo Morales”, and adds “that the Morales government has denied the version of events reported in the cable and has questioned the authenticity of the documents”.
However, this aspect was overlooked in the book “Bolivia Leaks, the political interference of the United States against the process of change”, a document that contains the cables that were revealed by Julian Assange’s Wikileaks page, about the movements of the US embassy in the country and that was coordinated by the then Minister of the Presidency, Juan Ramon Quintana, in co-authorship with other writers, who does not mention anywhere what Caceres pointed out.
Wikileaks is the website that revealed secret documents and associated analysis, including on the communications of U.S. diplomatic missions.
Morales is currently facing criminal proceedings, including an allegation that he had a relationship with an underage girl in 2015, from which a girl was born, according to a prosecutorial investigation. The incident occurred in Yacuiba, Tarija.
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