Evo Morales' drug trafficker number 2 is among those protected by the Mexican Embassy

Up to nine people are in asylum status at the Mexican embassy in La Paz, capital of Bolivia. These are nine Bolivian officials who were part of the government of Evo Morales, who in turn fled first to Mexico and then to Argentina after his team fell, including the presence of Juan Ramón Quintana, who was Evo’s number two. Morales and one of his top men of confidence in Bolivia as Minister of Government. He is currently under an arrest warrant under the charges of sedition and terrorism by the current government led by Jeanine Áñez. During his time as a senior government leader, he was accused of being related to drug trafficking. These accusations were based mainly on the ties he had with the drug trafficker Mayerling Castedo, a party official dedicated to drug trafficking. Eight other senior officials remain at the embassy, subject to the confusing episode in which Spanish diplomats have been involved. Among them are Javier Zavaleta López, Minister of Defense with Evo Morales; Héctor Arce Zaconeta, attorney general; Félix César Navarro Miranda, Minister of Mining; Wilma Alanoca, Minister of Cultures from 2017 to 2019; and Hugo Moldiz, who was Minister of Government until 2015. Also listed in the list of asylum leaders are Víctor Hugo Vásquez Mamani, who held the governorship of the department of Oruro; Pedro Damián Dorado López, vice minister of Rural Development, and Nicolás Laguna, director of the digital agency of the Government of Morales (Agetic).Accusations of sedition weigh on the ministers, while the last on the list, Laguna, is being sought for the alleged fraud committed in favor of Morales in the famous elections on October 20, which were won in strange circumstances by the former president. and that in the end they supposed the wick that caused its fall.