“But what we see in front is a hunger strike and 160 people who enter the virtual audience to insult and attack”, added the official in statements published by the state news agency ABI.
The process against Jeanine Áñez was supposed to begin last Thursday, but the court in charge decided to postpone it until this Wednesday, due to formal questions presented by the defense, technical problems and the protests that the remote hearing generated.
In the trial – in which, in addition to the former president, seven former military officers and one former police officer, all of high rank, are charged – the aim is to determine whether the departure of the president Evo Morales and his replacement by the de facto government of Áñez were effected through a coup or constitutional mechanism.
“What was defined (on Thursday) has a very relevant connotation, because it allows the country to know how this trial will be carried out,” Lima said.
“We understand that the court has made a decision for the good of the procedure so that there are no vices and so that it does not happen that later on some court of cassation or constitutional court can annul the process”, he added.
Likewise, the minister lamented the treatment that the judges are receiving, who, in his opinion, are being “seeked to be lynched by the media” because “their photos and names have been published, promoting that they be attacked.”
Jeanine Áñez, 54, has been imprisoned for 11 months and last Wednesday she started a hunger strike, so since then he only eats liquids and sweetsand his health presented “decompensations” on Monday, according to his lawyer, Norka Cuéllar.
“Yesterday he was still relatively well, but today he is already presenting some decompensations typical of not eating food for six days,” Cuéllar said, according to the La Paz newspaper Página Siete.
Source: Ambito
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