Former Acting President Jeanine Áñez published this Saturday on his social networks a letter addressed to the president of Bolivia, Luis Arce, in which he denounces “abuse of authority”, maintains his innocence and asks him to assume his defense in freedom.
“I proclaim my innocence and claim my right to defense in freedom to due process and to care for my health like anyone else,” says Áñez in a manuscript dated October 13, the day he served seven months in prison in a prison. La Paz, accused of crimes of terrorism, sedition and conspiracy in the case called “coup d’état”.
Añez invokes Arce “to reflection” and the “redirection of legitimate and legal actions” in the face of “abusive and tortuous” actions that she considers have developed against her despite her status as “former constitutional president.”
The former interim president was considered an “area” of “injustice”, “hatred”, “political persecution” and an ideology “that supplants the precepts of legality with the anticipated condemnation characteristic of totalitarian regimes”, referring to the ruling Movement to the Socialism (MAS).
The former interim president expressed that officials from different departments of the Bolivian Government commit “abuse of authority” through repetitive judicial acts that she described as contrary to the Constitution and Bolivian norms “with the sole intention” of humiliating and mistreating her in the “lowest ways”. and cruel ”.
In your writing. Áñez emphasizes that his arrival to the Presidency of the country was “in strict adherence to the provisions of the Constitution” and cited a declaration of the Constitutional Court and a national law, approved by the majority of MAS legislators, in January 2020, which their judgment supports it.
The Bolivian Government pointed out this Friday that in 2019 “there was no power vacuum” according to an interpretation of a ruling of the Plurinational Constitutional Court in which it is stated that “the succession ‘ipso facto’ is not possible after the resignation of elected authorities without first having not been analyzed.
Recently, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) denied Áñez the precautionary measures requested by his defense, after considering that the Bolivian Government has taken the necessary actions to protect his health, since, according to his relatives, he suffers from “basic hypertension”, “Peripheral neuropathy” and “anorexia nervosa”
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