The Paz court sentenced the former acting president for her role after the departure of Evo Morales in 2019. The prosecution had requested fifteen years in prison.
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Reading the verdict sentenced her to ten prison for “breaches of duty and resolutions contrary to the constitution”, Friday June 10, Jeanine Añez, an actual ex-president between November 2019 and November 2020, remained unchanging. She received her sentence through a screen, while she was in the prison for women of Miraflores, at La Paz, where she has been detained preventively since March 2021. “I was refused to be present even On my own trial, if we can qualify this imposture thus, “had published his family on his Twitter account a few hours earlier.
“I did what I had to do, I assumed the presidency by engagement, I assumed the presidency in accordance with the Constitution, following each of the stages and respecting all that she says , said the ex-president on Friday morning during her last statement before the verdict. I feel very proud, and I would do it again if I had the opportunity. “
The 54-year-old interim president was tried for her role during the days preceding her self-proclamation as president, on November 12, 2019, when she was the second vice-president of the Senate and that the country is had more head of state after disputed elections and the resignation of the left president Evo Morales (2006-2019).
The prosecution had requested fifteen years in prison and the lawyers of M me añez, his acquittal. The former heads of the armed forces, William Kaliman, and the police, Yuri Calderon, both on the run, were also sentenced to ten years in prison, while three other soldiers and police have received sentences ranging from two to four years prison.
During the last days of hearing, demonstrators posted before the doors of the anti -corruption court of the capital had claimed “thirty years [prison] for Añez”. Several leftist social organizations had threatened to block the country if it was not firmly condemned. The highly controversial trial had started in April, and took place in record time, according to La Défense, given the usual slowness of Bolivian justice, and although the appeals launched by the accused in early May delayed over a month the verdict.
The Minister of the Interior, Eduardo del Castillo, expressed the satisfaction of the government of Luis Arce, qualifying the day as “historic”. On the other side of the political spectrum, the ex-president on the right Carlos Mesa described the condemnation of “arbitrary, abusive, illegal and unconstitutional”.
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