The Bolivian government reported that interim former president Jeanine Áñez was injured in the arm on Saturday morning in a penitentiary in downtown La Pau where he is serving a pre-trial detention, amid orders from several former presidents to be granted a precautionary measure. different and can be defended.
On the eve, the Prosecutor’s Office filed an indictment to initiate a trial of the former governor of course genocide for the deaths recorded in two regions during the social and political crisis generated in the Andean nation in 2019.
“Ms. Jeanine Áñez would have tried to generate a ‘self-injury’ … we report that her health is stable and that she has small scratches on one of her arms and there is nothing to worry about,” he said. Minister of Government, Eduardo de el Castell.
Penitentiary authorities reported that Áñez, 54, who has been in prison since March on charges of alleged terrorism and sedition related to the 2019 political crisis, suffers from depression and high blood pressure. The family has repeatedly unsuccessfully asked to be treated in a clinic.
Defense attorney Norka Cuéllar noted that Áñez has three cuts to his left wrist and one to his forearm and “they have made him three points.”
“It’s a cry for help,” Cuéllar warned. “The former president really exploded because she filed several appeals to defend herself at large and (the judges) deny her.”
Experts from the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts, formed at the request of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), presented a report on Tuesday on the political and social crisis of 2019, in which it determined that in the management of the former president there were two massacres – that of Senkata and Sacaba – which left 20 dead and which according to investigations were followers of former President Evo Morales (2006-2019).
The document also said that human rights violations took place in Morales’ management.
Áñez ruled temporarily 11 months after the failed 2019 elections and the resignation of Morales. The conflicts left a total of 38 dead. In its temporary management it was summoned to elections in which Luis Maple won, political heir of Morales.
Meanwhile, former presidents Jaume Pau Zamora, Jorge Quiroga and Carlos Mesa issued a statement calling for a review of the legal situation of the former interim president and “establishing any alternative measures that allow her to defend herself, protecting her right to health, life and integrity “.
“The medical reports that have been released, as well as the moving images that have been released, show the deterioration in the health of former President Áñez,” the document states.
For its part, the Catholic Church called for a humanitarian gesture towards the detained former governor.