Lawyer Jeanine Añez is already sentenced to 10 years in prison for having assumed the presidency unconstitutionally in 2019. But this Thursday, he will have to face the beginning of a new trial against him, accused of having participated in the planning of the alleged coup d’état against Evo Morales.
The former president is held in a prison in La Paz from the year 2022, the same Bolivian city where a court will begin to judge her.
However, she will not be the only one facing trial, since along with her The former governor of Santa Cruz, Luis Fernando Camacho, and six more people will begin to be triedincluding former ministers, former military and police commanders and a social leader.
The direct accusation that comes from the public ministry is for “terrorism, criminal association and improper use of influence”due to violent protests against then-president Evo Morales, who was accused of committing alleged fraud in the 2019 elections.
They led to a taking power by forceand the obligation for Morales to abandon his position and not go for his third re-election. Different commanders participated there, including the military.
Then, in November of that year, Áñez assumed the presidency of Bolivia two days after the leader of the MAS and his then vice president, Álvaro García, resigned in the middle of the social upheaval. Before this, she was an opposition senator.
Under these indications, the prosecution demands between 15 and 20 years in prison for Áñez and the other defendants, taking into account the degree of participation they would have in “terrorism”, the most serious charge against them.
For his part, the former governor Camacho is accused as direct author of that specific crime, and the 57-year-old former president as accomplice. If she is found guilty, the years of her sentence would be added to those she already has.
The public ministry affirms that it has evidence so that the accused are convicted of the events that “led to the breakdown of the constitutional order and the premature departure of the government” of Evo Morales.
The word of Janine Añez
Jeanine Áñez, who He was president for a period of one year.described the trial as “illegal and fanciful” and a “hoax”. In her opinion, the ruling party decided to imprison her without “any evidence of anything.”
Besides rejects ordinary criminal trial and asks that, in her capacity as former president, the highest court examine her case with prior authorization from Congress.
The former right-wing president is already facing several more processesall of them related to what happened in 2019, when the violent episodes also left some 20 dead in military repression that followed the change of government.
The trial called “Coup d’état I”received from the beginning the determined support of the government of the president Luis Arce and the MAS leader, Evo Morales.
Argentina removed Evo Morales’ political refugee status
The former president of Bolivia Evo Morales no longer has political refugee status in Argentina. This was confirmed by the presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni from your X account, on October 2.
“Juan Evo Morales Ayma’s refugee status has been terminated. End,” Adorni indicated. This decision was made by changes in political horizons.
Morales was in the country with this special condition by offer of the former president Alberto Fernandez at the end of 2019, after exile in Mexico, after having resigned from the presidency of his country on November 10 of that year, following the coup d’état led by Jeanine Áñez Chávez.
Source: Ambito
