Morales alleged the shots were fired while he was being driven in Bolivia's coca leaf-growing region of Chapare, the ex-president's rural stronghold whose residents have blockaded the main east-west highway for the past two weeks in a show of defiance and solidarity after new legal threats against Morales emerged. The roadblocks and mass vigils have choked off major cities and disrupted food and fuel supplies, exacerbating the country's rolling economic crisis.
Morales described the burst of gunfire that hit his car on Sunday as part of a conspiracy by Arce's government to drive him out of politics. He told the radio host that as he was leaving home for the radio station, hooded men fired at least 14 shots at his car, wounding his driver. "Arce is going to go down as the worst president in history," Morales said.
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