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Bolivian judge orders arrest of ex-president Evo Morales in sex abuse case

A man with short dark hair stares into the distance
Evo Morales in Mexico City in November 2019. Photograph: Edgard Garrido/Reuters

A Bolivian judge has ordered the arrest of the former president Evo Morales over his alleged abuse of a teenage girl while in office, raising the stakes in the state’s months-long showdown with the former leader.

The judge in the southern city of Tarija called for Morales, 65, to be arrested after Bolivia’s first Indigenous president ducked out of a hearing on his possible pre-trial detention for a second time.

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