From the “minister of skirts” to a criminal record – the truth about Evo’s Evas | Del «ministro de faldas» a prontuario penal – la verdad de las Evas de Evo

By Alejandro Brown, Eju.tv:

While reviewing my files from the exile years, I stumbled upon a real gem that today makes more sense than ever. It was a publication from the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio from January 2007, about the book Un tal Evo by our compatriots Darwin Pinto and Roberto Navia. And honestly, reading it today is infuriating, because it shows us how cynical everything was from the very beginning.

It turns out that during those early years in the Palacio Quemado, things were handled with total shamelessness. The book revealed that there was an entire apparatus dedicated to protecting the boss’s image. So we do not forget the names, back then the ones managing the strategy and covering the holes were his personal adviser, the Peruvian Walter Chávez, and his spokesman and strongman, Álex Contreras.

Within that inner circle operated a key figure whom the authors baptized as the “minister of skirts.” His only job? Negotiating silence, arranging the logistics of secret houses, and politically shielding the ruler so no one would learn about his affairs. This whole theater was elegantly called his “sentimental agenda,” and his partners became popularly known as Evo’s Evas. They kept telling us it was all a matter of “privacy.”

And we cannot forget the arrogance with which they rubbed that impunity in our faces. What his entourage asked us to accept as “cultural jokes” today chills the blood. Let us remember that infamous phrase he himself said on television, laughing in front of the cameras: “I finish my years in office with my coca pouch, my fifteen-year-old girl, and my charango.” What they sold us back then as a tasteless joke now sounds like a shameless public confession.

Speaking of impunity, it is impossible not to remember the most infamous case of all, Gabriela Zapata. What they tried to handle as just another secret of that intimate agenda exploded in the face of the entire country in 2016. We saw how his former partner ended up moving millions from the Social Management offices through the Chinese company CAMC. And not to mention the macabre story of their alleged son: first the president acknowledged him, then told us he had died, and in the end even the MAS-controlled justice system had to admit that the child never existed. At that point it became crystal clear that the ruler’s private life was being financed through influence peddling and mockery of institutions.

But time passes and the truth always surfaces. What in 2007 they wanted to sell us as “slips,” and in 2016 as influence trafficking, today has names and definitions in our Criminal Code: statutory rape and human trafficking. We are no longer talking about secret romances, ladies and gentlemen. We are talking about extremely serious accusations. From the case of the young girl in 2020, to the 2024 arrest warrant over a relationship with a 15-year-old minor, all the way to Argentine justice reopening investigations in 2025 over abuses allegedly committed while he was sheltered there.

And what does he do in the face of all this? He refuses to testify before prosecutors, while his followers block highways and suffocate the economy of us cruceños and the entire country so the law cannot touch him.

And to top it off, we wake up to the news that Cindy Saraí, one of those implicated, comes out declaring that she “was never a trafficking victim” and that “there was no exploitation.” What a coincidence.

But hold on a second, things do not add up. Journalist Pepe Pomasi came out to expose this theater and reminded us of something fundamental: “She told me something different.” Pomasi revealed that Cindy confessed to him word for word: “I am very afraid.” Why does she suddenly change her version? Could it be that she is now acting out of that same fear or under pressure from that structure of power?

Pomasi puts his finger on the wound regarding evidence that cannot be erased with a simple interview: there are photographs and there is a birth certificate of a girl registered as Evo Morales’s daughter, whose surname was later conveniently changed. And what a coincidence, Evo’s radio station had never once mentioned Cindy Saraí… until today, exactly when she comes out to repeat the script that benefits them.

As the journalist rightly says, we must not forget the main point: Cindy Saraí and her daughter are victims in all this. Do they really want us to believe everything was invented? Or could it be that the same cover-up machinery, the same tactics of the old “minister of skirts,” are still operating today at full speed to buy silence and intimidate witnesses?

They want to keep feeding us fairy tales, but in Bolivia we are no longer naïve. That circle never protected a leader; they built a cover-up for a system of abuse and corruption that today brings us international shame. The Prosecutor’s Office must investigate all of this thoroughly. It is time for justice to stop looking the other way.

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