Bolivian minister accuses Evo Morales of ‘staged’ assassination attempt
Interior minister ridicules ex-president’s claim that government tried to kill him by firing shots at his car
Bolivia’s government has accused former president Evo Morales of staging an attempt on his own life, saying that the shots fired at his car on Sunday came after he tried to run a police checkpoint.
“Mr Morales, nobody believes the theater you have staged,” the interior minister, Eduardo del Castillo, told a news conference.