Former president Jeanine Áñez declares a hunger strike hours before the coup trial

• Bolivia The former president of Bolivia Jeanine Áñez, behind bars: "They hold me incommunicado"

"Today from my cell in Miraflores, La Paz, I make one of the hardest decisions of my life. Today I am going on a hunger strike... I am sick, but my last strength will be dedicated to showing the country and the world that these males of power will not be able to erase from history that they

The trial against Jeanine Áñez begins today in La Paz after learning of the protest measure launched by the former president, accused in the so-called "Coup d'etat Case II" of breach of duties and resolutions contrary to the Constitution.

The events being judged occurred during the replacement process of

who fled the country after confirming the electoral fraud committed by the ruling party.

Carolina Ribera

, Áñez's daughter, read the letter handwritten by her mother at the prison door, who is serving 11 months in preventive detention, which makes her a political prisoner of the indigenous revolution.

"I apologize to God for this action against me, but I hope he can give me the strength to understand his design and that my country does not forget his history," says Áñez, who signs as the former constitutional president of Bolivia.

It is precisely the events that are judged that turned Áñez, second vice president of Parliament and semi-unknown at the national level, into

after those who preceded her in the chain of command resigned.

The street protests against Evo, the rebellion of the Cochabamba police to avoid repression against the population, the desertion of important positions in the government and finally the controversial recommendation by the military leadership for Morales to leave power caused Morales to flee to his first place of exile, Mexico.

Carolina Ribera (c), daughter of the former interim president of Bolivia Jeanine Áñez, protests this Wednesday about her mother's situation. MartÌn AlipazEFE

All these circumstances give so much importance to the trial that begins this Thursday for the government of

for the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) and for Morales himself: his strategy is that the history books include the supposed coup d'état and forget the Electoral fraud discovered by international observers after the suspicious blackout on election night.

The judge has refused to grant conditional release to the former president during the trial, despite the different maneuvers of her lawyers.

He has based her decision on the fact that

even recalling that when she was arrested in March of last year she was preparing to leave Bolivia.

Others involved in this case are former

at the head of the Armed Forces in 2019, and former Police Chief Yuri Calderón, both fugitives.

Three other commanders will be tried in person in the Bolivian court.

Former presidents

in addition to the current mayor of La Paz, Iván Arias, have denounced the "judicial lynching" that is coming against Áñez.

"I express my full solidarity with the former constitutional president before the decision of personal sacrifice to confront the autocracy and masista brutality, which violates all her rights and keeps her in a shameful confinement," Mesa protested through her social networks. .

"Her status as former president is not respected, she is charged via ordinary trial. Her rights are violated with 333 days in preventive detention. She is judged without investigation or evidence. I condemn what will begin, a political trial of Evo Morales to launder his flight," the mayor specified.

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