The illegalities were allegedly committed when Jeanine Áñez assumed the interim presidency of Bolivia in 2019, after the army forced Evo Morales to resign, in an event considered by the ruling party as a “coup d’état.”
Former Bolivian president Jeanine Áñez was sentenced this Friday, June 10, to 10 years in prison after being found guilty of the crimes of “breach of duties” and “resolutions contrary to the Constitution.”
The illegalities were committed when assuming the interim presidency of Bolivia in 2019, after the army forced Evo Morales to resign, in an act considered by the ruling party as a “coup d’état”.
“The evidence provided and presented in court has been sufficient to generate in the court full conviction about their participation and criminal responsibility in the aforementioned crimes, sentencing them (Áñez and two other former officials) to 10 years’ imprisonment,” he said. Judge Germán Ramos, according to the agency EFE.
The 54-year-old lawyer was tried without any immunity and through her account TwitterÁñez condemned that she was denied the right to be in her own trial, since it was carried out virtually while she was in jail, despite the fact that she describes that act as a “simulacrum” and assures: “I was, I am and I will be the Constitutional President who took office after the coward’s flight.
I have been denied the right to even be present at my own trial, if that is what this drill can be called. They have denied me everything and treated me worse than anyone but I was, am and will be the Constitutional President who assumed her duty after the coward’s flight.#JeanineAñez pic.twitter.com/3PaMgQwXnP
– Jeanine Añez Chavez (@JeanineAnez) June 10, 2022
According to the authorities, the politician represented a “flight risk”, for which she remained in detention. Jeanine Áñez affirms that she was accused of crimes “that she has not committed.” She says that she was accused in two cases that she describes as part of “political persecution.”
For which she was convicted this Friday, the Bolivian Prosecutor’s Office called it “coup d’état II”, while she was also facing a case called “coup d’état 1”, which contemplates charges of terrorism, sedition and conspiracy for the violence that arose after the resignation of Morales, who was seeking a fourth re-election as president.
Jeanine Añez
Áñez came to Bolivian national politics in 2006, when she was elected as a representative of the Beni department in the Constituent Assembly that approved the Constitution in force since 2009.
During this process, he was a member of the Commission for the Organization and Structure of the Country and worked in the part of the Judiciary.
Once the new Magna Carta was approved, Áñez was elected as senator for her region by the now-defunct and opposition alliance Plan Progreso y Convergencia Nacional.
In his second term, which began in 2015, he stood out for his rejection of a possible fourth term for Morales and for his work in favor of the prevention of femicides and violence against women.
Áñez has two children and is married to a Colombian politician, Héctor Hincapié, who was a candidate for the Colombian Senate in 2018 for the Conservative Party.
She was the second woman to hold the presidency of Bolivia. Her predecessor was Lidia Gueiler Tejada, who led the country between 1979 and 1980, when she was overthrown by a military coup.
With information from BBC and EFE
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