The family of the former interim president of BoliviaJeanine Anezand her family, have announced their intention to go to international bodies to appeal the sentence for which she was sentenced on Friday to 10 years in prison for the ‘Coup d’etat II’ case.
Añez’s family has assured that they will take the case to international justice because the judicial process has had “irregularities” and “human rights violations.”
Carolina Ribera, her daughter, assured that they will go to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights because “all instances have been exhausted and there is no justice here”: “In the international arena there are no longer any political parties, there is no longer any political interference, there is no there is revenge,” he said.
The Bolivian opposition has announced mobilizations this week to show their rejection of the conviction against Añez: “Starting next week, we will be generating mobilizations,” announced Manuel Morales of the National Committee for the Defense of Democracy (Conade).
ACCUSE EVO MORALES
Jeanine Añez has accused the former president of Bolivia Evo Morales of being behind the ten-year prison sentence that was imposed this weekend in the framework of what is known as the ‘Coup d’etat II’ case, after the Justice considered that she had violated the Constitution by proclaiming herself president in 2019.
In her accusations, Áñez has mentioned some statements by Morales in which he assures that after meeting with, among others, the president, Luis Arce; the vice president, David Choquehuanca; or the Ministers of Justice, Iván Lima, and of Government, Eduardo del Castillo; they agreed to prosecute her by ordinary means and not through a trial of responsibilities.
“He blames his own government, Arce and Choquehuanca, Lima, del Castillo, his personal attorney Attorney (the attorney general, Wilfredo Chávez), his dolphin Andrónico (Rodríguez, president of the Senatwo), his judges and prosecutors to convict me on his order,” he wrote on Twitter on Monday.
“You can dictate 100 years in prison and you will continue to be a fugitive and a coward! It was fraud. It was a succession”, insisted Áñez, whose family announced on Sunday that they would appeal the sentence by appealing to international bodies due to the presence of “irregularities” throughout the process and the lack of justice in Bolivia.
Áñez, in pretrial detention since March 2021, has been sentenced to ten years in prison for her role in the political crisis of November 2019, when then-President Morales was forced to leave office due to pressure from the opposition and part of the Armed Forces, who did not recognize the electoral results after the Organization of American States (OAS) detected possible irregularities. A few days later, Áñez, then a senator, proclaimed herself president.
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