“Under no circumstances can interference be accepted in the decisions that sovereignly correspond to Bolivian justice,” said Foreign Minister Rogelio Mayta, who added that Bolivia will present a “diplomatic claim” to Brazil.
Jair Bolsonaro said on Sunday that he would do “whatever was possible” for Jeanine Áñez to go to Brazil “if the Bolivian government accepts” and that the former president (2019-2020) is “unjustly imprisoned“.
Áñez, who defines herself as a political prisoner, thanked Bolsonaro on Twitter from the La Paz prison where she is being held, but asserted that “she has not left and will not leave the country.”
The conviction of Jeanine Áñez
The Bolivian justice considers that Jeanine Áñez, from the right, reached the Presidency unconstitutionally in November 2019 after the resignation of the leftist Morales (2006-2019) after the Armed Forces joined the protests for an alleged electoral fraud denounced by Organization of American States (OAS).
The sentence against the former de facto president was rejected by the opposition, the United States and the European Union.
For his part, a UN rapporteur on judicial independence assured that Áñez, judged by ordinary means, has “the right to a judgment of responsibilities” before Congress “regardless of how his mandate arose.
Brazil was one of the first countries to recognize the de facto government, joined by the United States, the European Union and Russia, among others.
Jeanine Áñez was arrested in March 2021 and sentenced on May 10. She is also accused of “genocide” -which carries prison sentences of between 10 and 20 years- following the complaint of relatives of victims of the November 2019 repression.
Source: Ambito
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