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Jeanine Áñez arrived at Palacio Quemado as the provisional president of Bolivia, barely carrying a giant Bible as if it were an essential shield to protect herself from the turbulence that rages over her country. As if he wanted to borrow for a few weeks the symbols that the revolutionary leaders of the continent like to use so much , in order to bring to fruition a mission he never imagined. "It was a manifestation of faith," the vice president of the Senate defended when asked by the BBC, as opposed to the atheism that Evo Morales brandished, in his opinion, against the ideas of the majority .

A "manifestation of reconciliation" that also felt like an exacerbated, almost dramatic act, which became global in a few hours. "Our strength is God, power is God," insisted the new president next to the whipala, the emblem of the indigenous flag, so raised today.

The half-unknown Áñez thus entered the first division of the regional leaders, fighting with Cuba for their doctors (as Jair Bolsonaro did before) and breaking relations with Venezuela , to make clear from the outset that, at least, he knows who his main enemies A world of alpha males: not a single woman today presides over the countries of the region. And the presidential power of the only woman hangs on threads that are not, by any means, robust.

The labyrinth that Bolivia lives today in the background pays the metaphysical idea of ​​Áñez, as if a miracle were needed so that the democratic elections , which they claim outside and inside the country, are held within a maximum period of 90 days. It would be the climax for an express transition dotted with serious confrontations , with part of the country besieged and out of supply and with its predecessor playing the face of his savior return from Mexico. The best revolutionary "fireman" for a country on fire .

Áñez, 52, is not only president by accident, a position that was his turn after the resignations of the president, vice president, president of the Senate and president of the Chamber. It is also an accident policy, as she recognized in 2006 after becoming a constituent because it was by law to increase the presence of women on the lists. The Podemos (Democratic and Social Power) party offered him a place in his lists for the Constituent, then followed a group of his department and later Democratic Unit, always in opposition to the indigenous revolution.

Until then, this 52-year-old lawyer worked as a television presenter . Born in San Joaquin, a small town in the department of Beni, near the border with Brazil and part of the Eastern Crescent of Bolivia. The famous Media Luna who always looked suspiciously at Evo Morales, the indigenous leader of the Andes.

"If it had not been for a legal imperative, I would not even now be a senator," the now provisional president acknowledged years ago. The twists and turns of life. But do not be fooled by such an accident , Áñez also has a blind faith in itself, won in his years in Parliament but also with his daily duels on television, on the Totalvision channel.

They were other times, more familiar, with her husband and two children. And with several passions, such as sports, which cost him so much to practice in La Paz because of the 3,600 meters high that also snatch the oxygen from his lungs .

Criticism against the provisional president has not only come from Evo's followers, who even decreed an ultimatum (already surpassed) to abandon power. The "bombings" of all kinds against Áñez come from the Chavez websites and accounts , full of machismo and misogyny, a classic. Even a fake video has circulated through the networks maintaining sexual relations, very similar to those already carried out at the expense of Juan Guaidó's wife.

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