Peace.- The former interim president of Bolivia Jeanine Áñez was transferred this Saturday from the Special Force to Fight Crime (Felcc) to the La Paz Prosecutor’s Office to give her statement.
The former transitory president was taken this morning to the Felcc cells and then transferred in a police van to the La Paz Prosecutor’s Office to give her informative statement as part of the process for the investigations of the alleged “coup d’état” in 2019 against Evo Morales.
At the time of the transfer, the president described her apprehension as an “absolute outrage” and told the media that it was a “political intimidation” and that behind all this process is the Movement for Socialism (MAS), party of President Luis Arce and former President Morales (2006-2019).
Áñez said that she will go to international bodies since her “status as former president” is not respected and emphasized that she followed a “constitutional succession.”
Meanwhile, the former interim ministers of the Áñez de Justicia government, Álvaro Coímbra, and Álvaro Guzmán, of Energy, continue in the offices of the Felcc.
The former transitory minister Coimbra told the press when he was taken to a Felcc office that it was a “political process.”
“What they are doing to me is a legal aberration,” said Coimbra when he returned to the Felcc cells.
Áñez was transferred at dawn this Saturday in a Hercules plane of the Bolivian Air Force from the Amazon Beni to the city of La Paz under a strong police guard.
For his part, the Minister of the Interior (Interior), Eduardo del Castillo, indicated that “political persecution” is not being carried out, as the Bolivian opposition denounces, and referred to Áñez as a “former senator.”
Former President Evo Morales indicated through his social networks that “for justice and truth for the 36 victims”, the wounded and those detained “illegally” in the “coup” the case is being investigated.
“That the authors and accomplices of the dictatorship that looted the economy and attacked life and democracy in Bolivia be investigated and punished,” Morales wrote on Twitter.
Áñez and the two former interim ministers apprehended are accused of the alleged crimes of “terrorism, sedition” during the 2019 crisis after the failed elections that led to the resignation of Evo Morales to the presidency.
There are also arrest warrants against former transitional government minister Arturo Murillo, of Defense, Luis Fernando López, and former commanders of the Police.