“Immoral and Repugnant” = evo = “Inmoral y repugnante”

By Juan Jose Toro, Brujula Digital:

The government didn’t need to hire experts to prove that the video of the gunfire on the cars loaned to Evo Morales was staged. No experts were needed because the staging is obvious. Within an hour of its release, hundreds of internet users were already pointing out the inconsistencies. The media simply highlighted the obvious, but the former president reacted by spewing his hatred once again.

“It’s truly immoral and repugnant what some media outlets do just for the government’s advertising funding,” Morales posted on X, trying to justify why the driver appears in one part of the video with one shirt and then with another later. His explanation was that they used “two vehicles and two drivers to escape the bullets,” even providing the drivers’ names. In the same message, he stated that out of 14 shots, “2 hit the driver who miraculously survived.” That’s his only explanation for the fact that, in the video, we see a driver with blood on his neck, continuing to drive as if nothing happened.

An expert could determine what really happened with the shots if a forensic analysis were allowed on the vehicle(s). However, Morales himself admitted that these were loaned by the Venezuelan government, a clear case of foreign interference.

I’m not a psychologist or an expert in attacks, but I’ve survived two assassination attempts and was pursued during a shooting, so I can at least offer an opinion on common reactions in these situations. Both attempts were beatings in broad daylight, the first by three people at the door of the Santo Domingo temple and the second by at least twenty miners who attacked me as I was ascending Cerro Rico.

I don’t know if there were witnesses to the first attack, but in the second, it happened in front of hundreds of people. What I felt in both cases was fear—blind, visceral fear that made me forget everything else. I instinctively shielded my head, my mind fogged, and I heard the blows to my body like punches to a sandbag with an echo. In the seconds that passed until they stopped beating me, I thought I would die.

When your life is under threat, you forget everything else; your only concern is survival. It’s called the survival instinct. It’s impossible to focus on anything else but escaping the danger.

In the case of Evo’s alleged attack, both he and his companion, the histrionic Cesia Vargas, seemed more concerned with instructing that the blockade remain in place than with protecting their lives: “Block them! They’re after me, block them!” And this happened just when some Chapare leaders were considering lifting the blockades.

These inconsistencies were pointed out by the media for being exactly that—incoherencies. The press was simply doing its job, and that is neither immoral nor repugnant.

Immorality is using state resources so that a circle of sycophants provides you with underage girls for sexual abuse, and repugnance is impregnating girls who haven’t even reached sexual maturity.

Juan José Toro is a National Journalism History Award Winner.

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