Where’s Evo? Missing Morales mystery as Bolivia’s ex-president goes to ground

<p>Once a highly visible figure despite being wanted on human trafficking charges, the former leader has not been seen since shortly after the US kidnapped Venezuela’s president</p><p>For more than a year, he stayed <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/08/bolivia-evo-morales">hidden in plain sight</a>: despite an arrest warrant for human trafficking charges, former president <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/evo-morales">Evo Morales</a> moved freely in at least one region of Bolivia, attended rallies, received foreign journalists and went to the polls to cast his vote in the 2025 presidential election.</p><p>But shortly after the United States attack on<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/venezuela">Venezuela</a> – and the detention of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/nicolas-maduro">Nicolás Maduro</a> – Morales disappeared from view; a month later his whereabouts remain a mystery.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/07/evo-morales-bolivia">Continue reading...</a>