Tag: Jeanine Añez

• Friday, February 11th 2022 - 09:21 UTC

  Bolivia: Virtual trial against Áñez postponed

  

  A Bolivian Court in La Paz Thursday postponed the beginning of the so-called “Coup d'état II” trial against former interim President Jeanine Áñez who had gone on a hunger strike since Wednesday.

• Thursday, February 10th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Añez goes on hunger strike as coup trial looms over

  

  Carolina Ribera, daughter of former interim Bolivian President Jeanine Añez, has announced her mother had gone on a hunger strike on the eve of the start of her trial for the so-called “Coup d'etat II” case. Áñez is charged with violating the Constitution by proclaiming herself president of that nation.

• Tuesday, February 1st 2022 - 10:04 UTC

  Bolivian Prosecutor says evidence proves Macri's help to Áñez

  

  Bolivia's Chief Prosecutor Wilfredo Chávez said documents proved the Argentine Government of former President Mauricio Macri was involved in topplig Evo Morales in 2019 on the alleged grounds of an electoral fraud which was never proven.

• Wednesday, December 22nd 2021 - 11:29 UTC

  Áñez's daughter seeks help from Bachelet regarding her mother's arrest

  

  Carolina Ribera, daughter of Bolivia's former interim President Jeanine Áñez, Tuesday sought assistance from the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, to help put an end to the “torture” her mother is allegedly enduring while incarcerated pending trial.

• Wednesday, December 8th 2021 - 09:45 UTC

  Bolivia: Áñez gov't sought military help from US and UK, letters show

  

  Former interim President Jeanine Áñez had requested military assistance from the US and UK embassies “to repress the Bolivian people,” Citizen Security Deputy Minister Roberto Ríos said Tuesday.

• Tuesday, October 19th 2021 - 09:22 UTC

  Bolivia: Medical reports say Áñez would be better if hospitalized

  

  Former Bolivian Interim President Jeanine Áñez, under preventive arrest for her alleged involvement in the repressions during the 2019 revolt that led to Evo Morales' resignation and her subsequent accession to power, has been subject to a psychiatric evaluation which recommended she be hospitalized.

• Sunday, October 17th 2021 - 08:16 UTC

  Bolivia's Constitutional Court rules Áñez presidency was illegal

  

  The swearing-in of Jeanine Áñez as president of Bolivia was unconstitutional. © AFP Jeanine Áñez's swearing-in as president of Bolivia was unconstitutional.

• Thursday, August 5th 2021 - 20:37 UTC

  Another court case and six more months of jail for ex interim Bolivian president

  

  Bolivian ex-president Jeanine Añez will have to spend at least a whole year in jail since a Judge this week extended her preventive imprisonment for another six months when she is about to complete her first half-year of reclusion in a La Paz detention center.

• Wednesday, July 21st 2021 - 09:18 UTC

  Ex Bolivian imprisoned president requests to present her case of UN human rights chief Bachelet

  

  Former Bolivian interim president Jeanine Añez has requested a formal audience with the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, in a letter which she made public on Tuesday in social networks.

• Tuesday, June 15th 2021 - 07:56 UTC

  Bolivia's ex acting president Jeanine Añez denounces she's a “political prisoner”

  

  Bolivia's former acting president Jeanine Añez claimed she was a “political prisoner” in remarks on Twitter on Sunday. Añez has been arrested for over three months following coup allegations by her predecessor and rival Evo Morales.