RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Ex-president of Bolivia Jeanine Áñez denounced that two months after she was placed in preventive detention “not a single piece of evidence” has been submitted to sustain the accusations against her.
“More than two months have passed since my preventive detention was ordered. Since that time, the prosecutors have not submitted a single piece of evidence linking me to the alleged crimes of conspiracy, sedition and terrorism,” she said on Twitter.
The post, published by her account administrator, emphasizes that “they will never” be able to link her to the accusations. “The only thing I did was fulfill my duty in the constitutional succession, endorsed even by the Constitutional Court itself,” she emphasized.
“I am a political prisoner, that is the only truth,” added Áñez, detained on March 13 in the city of Trinidad accused of sedition, terrorism and conspiracy for her involvement in the framework of the 2019 post-electoral crisis.
The “coup d’état” case is part of an investigation following a complaint by former MAS deputy Lidia Patty, who accused Luis Fernando Camacho, governor of Santa Cruz and candidate in last year’s presidential election, in which Luis Arce won, of instigating, along with his father and several military and police officers, the riots and the ousting of Evo Morales.
Áñez assumed the presidency in November 2019 after Evo Morales and other high-ranking officials resigned, arguing that the power void allowed her to take office from her position as second vice-president of the Senate.
She remained in office until November 2020, when new presidential elections were held in Bolivia, in which Arce won, candidate for the MAS of ex-president Morales, who did not run in the elections.