Let’s end injustice

(Public statement- Jeanine Añez Case)

1. During the transitional government of Janine Añez, I was critical of the abuses that were being committed and publicly demanded that the bloody acts of Senkata and Sacaba be faced with impunity. That time I asked: “Does it make sense today to use similar methods and forms of the authoritarians who fled in November? Are we seeking justice or are we after some form of revenge…?” (La Razón, Political Animal, 2/16/2020).

Around the corner the roles were reversed. And for this reason, with the MAS back in government, on March 15, 2021 I wrote and published “10 criteria on a run over”, repudiating the abuses that, in that month, began against former president Añez, when she was arrested and illegally imprisoned.

2. Today after 11 months, the prosecutors have requested the ordinary criminal prosecution of the former president, based on the violation of due process and of the natural judge that is the Supreme Court, dividing trials, violating the constitutional principle of a single trial and, even pretending to process the trial in an unacceptable virtual “secrecy”, under the guise of “sanitary measures”.

3. I reiterate. Mrs. Añez and her main collaborators must be prosecuted for the bloody acts of Sacaba and Senkata, establishing sanctions for those who are responsible, but this prosecution cannot violate the Constitution or due process with ordinary judges and prosecutors, but must be processed before the Supreme Court, in a judgment of responsibilities.

4. The illegal ordinary trial, which is to be initiated these days against the former transitory president, does not even touch on the massacres and deaths of Sacaba and Senkata. It is an illegal legal invention, full of procedural irregularities, that only seeks revenge and that, above all, tries to mitigate the claims of the families of the victims who, rightly, demand justice against an impunity that the Arce government, indirectly, it is promoting, by covering up its inability to reach democratic agreements in parliament, and initiating the true trial of Responsibilities mandated by law and the Constitution.

5. Today the judicial sludge is expressed in the assassins released by judges close to the government, but also in the revenge against the former president, which is directed almost personally by the ministers of the Pdte. Arce, manipulating judges and prosecutors of the same political affinity as the prevaricators.

6. Enough of so much ridicule of the Constitution and the rule of law. Let us immediately restore a minimum of independence of powers and another minimum of respect for constitutional procedural guarantees for Añez and for all. And, on that basis, let’s go to the bottom of the swamp, let’s begin to remove the mud, let’s begin the transformation of justice with a citizen referendum, whether it is the result of a national agreement, or the collection of a million and a half expressive signatures of the repudiation, but above all of the democratic decision to put an end to injustice.

(Public statement- Jeanine Añez Case)

1. During the transitional government of Janine Añez, I was critical of the abuses that were being committed and publicly demanded that the bloody acts of Senkata and Sacaba be faced with impunity. That time I asked: “Does it make sense today to use similar methods and forms of the authoritarians who fled in November? Are we seeking justice or are we after some form of revenge…?” (La Razón, Political Animal, 2/16/2020).

Around the corner the roles were reversed. And for this reason, with the MAS back in government, on March 15, 2021 I wrote and published “10 criteria on a run over”, repudiating the abuses that, in that month, began against former president Añez, when she was arrested and illegally imprisoned.

2. Today after 11 months, the prosecutors have requested the ordinary criminal prosecution of the former president, based on the violation of due process and of the natural judge that is the Supreme Court, dividing trials, violating the constitutional principle of a single trial and, even pretending to process the trial in an unacceptable virtual “secrecy”, under the guise of “sanitary measures”.

3. I reiterate. Mrs. Añez and her main collaborators must be prosecuted for the bloody acts of Sacaba and Senkata, establishing sanctions for those who are responsible, but this prosecution cannot violate the Constitution or due process with ordinary judges and prosecutors, but must be processed before the Supreme Court, in a judgment of responsibilities.

4. The illegal ordinary trial, which is to be initiated these days against the former transitory president, does not even touch on the massacres and deaths of Sacaba and Senkata. It is an illegal legal invention, full of procedural irregularities, that only seeks revenge and that, above all, tries to mitigate the claims of the families of the victims who, rightly, demand justice against an impunity that the Arce government, indirectly, it is promoting, by covering up its inability to reach democratic agreements in parliament, and initiating the true trial of Responsibilities mandated by law and the Constitution.

5. Today the judicial sludge is expressed in the assassins released by judges close to the government, but also in the revenge against the former president, which is directed almost personally by the ministers of the Pdte. Arce, manipulating judges and prosecutors of the same political affinity as the prevaricators.

6. Enough of so much ridicule of the Constitution and the rule of law. Let us immediately restore a minimum of independence of powers and another minimum of respect for constitutional procedural guarantees for Añez and for all. And, on that basis, let’s go to the bottom of the swamp, let’s begin to remove the mud, let’s begin the transformation of justice with a citizen referendum, whether it is the result of a national agreement, or the collection of a million and a half expressive signatures of the repudiation, but above all of the democratic decision to put an end to injustice.

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