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At the end of 2019, the conservative had replaced Evo Morales, herald of the indigenous left, forced to resign after a contested re-election. Accused of a coup d’etat, she calls herself a “political prisoner”.
On Wednesday, on the eve of her trial, the former president of Bolivia Jeanine Añez announced from her prison to undertake a hunger strike. She wishes by her action “to allow the international community to understand that justice is in the hands of Evo Morales and Luis Arce”, either his predecessor and his successor in the presidential chair. In a handwritten letter read by her daughter in front of the media and then posted on Twitter, she adds: “I am desperate to see a country without justice and law.”
In November 2019, Jeanine Añez, then second vice-president of the Senate, proclaimed herself interim president of Bolivia following the forced departure of left-wing president Evo Morales. She assumed power for eleven months. In the trial which opened Thursday in La Paz, she is accused of having carried out a “Rebellion” against Morales, and is charged with “unconstitutional decisions” and of “dereliction of duty”. Eight former military officers appear alongside him. The one who, on the contrary, presents herself as a “political prisoner” asserts in his defense that as a former pres…