This Tuesday a rally was held in La Paz, followed by a march, demanding freedom for the former interim president of Bolivia, Jeanine Áñez, and her former ministers Álvaro Coímbra and Rodrigo Guzmán.
The former officials are serving a month in preventive detention accused of the crimes of sedition, terrorism and conspiracy, in the case of the alleged “coup” carried out by the Bolivian prosecutor’s office.
In the protest, called by the National Committee for the Defense of Democracy, the Civic Committee of La Paz and citizen organizations, Áñez’s daughter, Carolina Rivera, read a letter supposedly written by her mother in which she claims to be innocent in the face of the process. that the Prosecutor’s Office carries out against him. The same letter was published in Áñez’s official account and Twitter.
“I have been a prisoner in the hands of the dictatorship for a month for a crime that I did not commit and that never happened, a month in which the dictatorship has proven to be very good at political persecution and very bad at vaccinating against the virus”, expresses the note.
Later, he affirms that “in this month I have learned something and I am going to resist because the cause is greater than my sorrow. This is not about Jeanine Añez, this is about freedom and democracy, ”he said.
The rugged path of Jeanine Áñez in politics 1:59Shortly after, a large march mobilized through the center of La Paz, the seat of the government, and moved to the Miraflores prison where the ex-president is being held.
Áñez was arrested on March 13 in the city of Trinidad, Beni department, and transferred to La Paz by the Bolivian Prosecutor’s Office and the Bolivian Police for investigation.
On March 14, the justice determined his preventive detention for six months, while the investigation lasts, as well as for his two former ministers.
At the time, Añez affirmed that such a coup “never” occurred and denounced a political persecution against him and his former officials. For his part, Coimbra claimed to be a “political prisoner” of the Movement for Socialism (MAS), while Guzmán said he was “calm” and “confident” because, in his opinion, he had the necessary arguments to “get ahead.”