Evo Morales presents his Argentinian legal team
Bolivia’s former president Evo Morales has announced that former Supreme Court justice and judge at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (CIDH) Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni and constitutional lawyer Raúl Gustavo Ferreyra will serve as his legal advisers while he remains in exile in Buenos Aires.
Zaffaroni was elected to the CIDH in 2016 and served on Argentina’s Supreme Court from 2003 until his retirement from the body in 2015. Ferreyra has held diverse positions as a lawyer and professor of law in Argentina.
Morales (pictured), who resigned the Bolivian presidency in October after a disputed election result, said he would retain the counsel of the two constitutional experts in his defence against charges of sedition and funding terrorism in Bolivia, according to local press reports.
The interim government that replaced him in power in La Paz has also accused Morales, who served as president from 2006 until 2019, of usurping the functions of public office.
Morales has also revealed that he has received legal advice from Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón.
