Jeanine Áñez President of Bolivia in 2019-2020
Former Bolivian President Jeanine Áñez was sentenced to 10 years in prison for what prosecutors described as a coup to overthrow her predecessor Evo Morales.
A court found Áñez, who in 2019-20 in labor functions, guilty of making “unconstitutional decisions. “
Áñez has declared that he is the victim of a political vendetta.
Morales resigned and fled Bolivia after the army leader suggested he resign amid protests over allegations of electoral fraud.
Áñez, 54, sentenced this Friday through the Court of La Paz. The court said she would serve her sentence in a women’s prison in the city.
The former president denounced what she described as political persecution through the more socialist of M. Moral.
Mas won a landslide victory in presidential and congressional elections in 2020, paving the way for Morales to return to Bolivia from Argentina and take the leadership of the party.
His colleague Luis Arce elected president, who under pressure in an interview with the BBC that he would follow his own political path.
As the longest-serving senator, Áñez is interim president after Morales. But members of the Mas party accused her, in collusion with police and army figures, of having arranged her overthrow.
She was arrested in March 2021.
After Friday’s verdict, Áñez’s defense said it would appeal to the organizations to seek justice.
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