The former Bolivian provisional president, Jeanine Áñez, was sentenced to ten years in prison for participating in a coup against her predecessor Evo Morales.
Áñez was in office in 2019-20, and was found guilty of making “decisions contrary to the Constitution.”
As the highest-ranking senator, Áñez became interim president after the coup. Mas party members accused her, colluding with police and military figures, of engineering her overthrow.
El Mas won a landslide victory in the 2020 presidential and legislative elections, paving the way for Morales to return to Bolivia from Argentina.
The former interim president of Bolivia is transferred to another prison
Añez was arrested on March 13, 2021 in her hometown, Trinidad, and taken to La Paz after an arrest warrant was issued accusing her of terrorism and sedition.
The court announced that she would serve her sentence in a women’s prison in La Paz. The former president herself has maintained that she is the object of political persecution by the Mas party and that she is the victim of a vendetta.
The former head of the armed forces, William Kaliman, and the former chief of police, Yuri Calderón, both fugitives, were also sentenced to ten years in prison.
The defendant still has a pending court case for sedition and other charges related to her presidential term.
She had announced that she would appeal if found guilty: “We will not stop there, we will go before the international justice system.”
His defense has just ratified it.
