Prosecutor's office seeks investigation of Evo Morales and García Linera for murder in Hotel Las Américas case
The State Prosecutor's Office has requested the Public Ministry to expand its investigation of the Hotel Las Américas case to include the crime of murder against former presidents Morales and García Linera.
Prosecutor's office expands Hotel Las Américas case and implicates former president Morales and former vice-president García Linera for murder
The General Prosecutor's Office requested that the Public Ministry expand its investigation of the Hotel Las Américas case to include the crime of murder against former president Evo Morales and former vice-president Álvaro García Linera, whom it identifies as alleged intellectual authors of the events that occurred in April 2009. According to El Deber, the request was presented on Friday 13 November to the material prosecutors in Santa Cruz.
The document argues that current investigations concentrate solely on the crimes of abuse and torture, and therefore the institution considers it necessary to incorporate the charge of murder into the investigation.
In support of this, the Prosecutor's Office cites statements made by García Linera to a media outlet, in which he allegedly stated that the order to enter Hotel Las Américas was issued by Morales. It also includes press clippings about a trip by the former president to Venezuela, where—according to the document—he allegedly publicly confirmed that he had ordered the police intervention.
Arrest warrants and Interpol
In the same memorandum, to which El Deber had access, the Prosecutor's Office requested that a fiscal summons be issued to cite Morales as a person under investigation. Furthermore, it requested the activation of an Interpol red notice, arguing that there are two outstanding arrest warrants against him in separate proceedings.
The document attaches an arrest warrant against Morales issued in Santa Cruz on 29 July 2026, within an investigation into alleged crimes of armed insurrection against state security and sovereignty, terrorism and attacks on the security of transport systems. It also includes an arrest and detention warrant issued on 11 May 2026 by a sentencing tribunal in Tarija, in a proceeding for alleged aggravated human trafficking whose victim was allegedly a minor.
The Prosecutor's Office demanded that procedural deadlines be met and that the investigation proceed in accordance with diligence and effectiveness criteria established by the regulations.
Public Ministry considers diplomatic notification to García Linera
The request became known after the La Paz Prosecutor's Office reported that it is considering resorting to diplomatic and consular channels to notify García Linera, who confirmed that he received political asylum in Mexico. The departmental prosecutor of La Paz, Gabriel Quiroga, stated that if the former vice-president is summoned and does not appear, the Public Ministry could issue an arrest warrant and request that he be declared in absentia.
In parallel, the General Commander of the Police, Adrián Álvarez, reported that the institution received a fiscal request to process a blue notice from Interpol against García Linera, a mechanism aimed at gathering information about the identity, whereabouts or activities of a person linked to an investigation, without constituting an arrest order.
For its part, the Foreign Ministry stated that it officially requested information from Mexico regarding the granting of asylum to García Linera, in order to ascertain whether there was a formal decision and to determine its legal scope. The State Department clarified that the recognition of international protection by another country does not, in itself, suspend fiscal investigations or legal proceedings opened in Bolivia.
Source: El Deber