Former interim president of Bolivia, Jeanine Añez, in La Paz, March 13, 2021. -

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In Bolivia, the justice extended from four to six months the pre-trial detention of the former interim president, Jeanine Añez.

She is accused of participating in an alleged coup against Evo Morales in 2019. This decision, taken after a long court hearing, also applies to her former justice ministers and of Energy, also in detention.

Arrest warrants were also issued for others, including the leader of the wealthy Santa Cruz region (center) Luis Fernando Camacho and senior military and police officials.

Request for release after a "hypertensive crisis"

Jeanine Añez was transferred by ambulance to a prison in the capital, La Paz, where she can be monitored medically, according to the prison services.

The lawyers of the former transitional president, in power from November 2019 to November 2020, had filed a request for release after a "hypertension crisis" of which she had been the victim after her imprisonment.

His transfer to a hospital was authorized Friday by the courts, then rejected a few hours later by the same court.

“Ms. Jeanine Áñez did not have to get out [of prison], we have everything we need to preserve her health,” said director general of the penitentiary regime, Juan Carlos Limpias at a press conference.

United Nations staff will be able to verify that "no rights [of Jeanine Añez] have been violated," he continued.

Complaint for "sedition", "terrorism" and "conspiracy"

The 53-year-old former Conservative vice-president was arrested on March 14, along with two of her former ministers, following a complaint for "sedition", "terrorism" and "conspiracy" filed by a former MP of the MAS, the party of his socialist predecessor Evo Morales.

In November 2019, two days after the resignation of Evo Morales, when she was second conservative vice-president of the Senate, Jeanine Añez was sworn in as interim president in favor of a vacancy caused by the resignations in chain of the president and his constitutional successors.

Evo Morales was initially driven by an uprising, after being proclaimed the winner of the presidential election where he was running for a fourth term.

He was then accused of fraud by the opposition.

Dropped by the police and the army, he resigned and took refuge in Mexico and then in Argentina.

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