2025-05-15
29 分钟This is The Guardian.
Today a journey into the jungle hideout of Bolivia's fugitive former president.
Over nearly 14 years in power, Ivo Morales transformed Bolivia.
A socialist who lifted millions out of poverty, the country's first Indigenous president,
a populist who built schools and hospitals and a new high-rise presidential palace with its own massage room and sauna.
But that palace isn't where the Guardian found Morales a few weeks ago.
Yeah, we just went through the first checkpoint.
We are now waiting for someone from Ivo's team to allow us in the compound where he's being protected.
Morales is now a fugitive, holed up in rural Bolivian coca country,
defended by locals, men, women and children.
It was hundreds of people.
They were all holding sticks.
Some of them were holding these makeshift shields.
And on the top of the wooden fort, there was this guy holding an arrow.
So like I pointed the camera to the bow and arrow guy, he smiled and he made a pose.
It was very surreal.
It was like I was in a movie set, but like a low-budget movie set of a Bolivian.
version of Game of Thrones.
They say they will defend Evo Morales with their own lives if necessary,
if the government, if the police or the military try to arrest him.