MIAMI, United States.- The Assembly of the Cuban Resistance (ARC), based in Miami, joined this Monday the request of the Union of Latin American Parties (UPLA) so that the United Nations, the European Union, the OAS and the Inter-American Human Rights System rule on the unjust conviction of former president Jeanine Áñez, which responds to political objectives.
The UPLA, representing 26 democratic political parties and forces, from 20 countries, considers that due process has been violated in the case of the former president and that an attempt has been made to ignore the constitutional nature of the transitional government headed by Áñez in 2019 .
After learning that Áñez was sentenced by a Bolivian court to 10 years in prison, the UPLA expressed its extreme concern about the sentence.
“This resolution seeks to disregard the constitutional nature of the transitional government led by former president Áñez, recognized by the international community, which allowed Bolivia to overcome the serious confrontation and violence derived from the fraud committed in the October 2019 elections and call new elections that allowed reestablishing its democratic institutionality”, reads the statement.
The Union of Latin American Parties assures that this conviction “is nothing more than an act of political persecution against the former president, with which it is intended to intimidate the democratic actions of the forces opposed to the current government.”
In exclusive interview with CubaNet, the daughter of the former Bolivian president assured that the process against her mother has been illegal from start to finish, even “they have denied her being present at her own trial, there was no natural judge, there was no due process and transparent tax investigation and suitable, there was no presumption of innocence. There are public statements by ministers and deputy ministers pressuring judges and it was an express trial, which lasted only three months, with marathon hearings and eliminating evidence”.
Carolina Ribera Áñez assured that “my mother suffers a judicial hell, a judicial torture that faces trials both in the ordinary way, as if she were an ordinary citizen”, and that keeping her detained “in this unjust, inhuman and illegal confinement, is the most disastrous thing we have experienced in Bolivia throughout our history.”
“They are killing my mother. That is why I ask all of you to join our voice, to make pronouncements, to hold demonstrations to ask for the life and safety not only of my mother, but of all the political prisoners in Bolivia and that there are no more families. destroyed by this abuse that we are experiencing, by this abuse of power by an abusive and totalitarian government. A government that really does not care about the lives of Bolivians but about keeping them in power, ”she added.
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