La Pau, Bolivia.
the former transitional president of Bolivia Jeanine Áñez she stated on Tuesday that she no longer “wants to live”, the day after she had suffered injuries to her arms and on a day in which the prison administration removed her from the penitentiary in which she is being held for you new medical tests.
“I don’t want to live anymore. My children need to make a living. I don’t want any more drugs I don’t know what they are. I ask my jailers to please tell me what I’m taking,” says a message from Áñez spread in his Social Networks.
The publication is accompanied by a text indicating that the former president is “very weak” and that she is suffering “permanently” as every 10 minutes someone enters her cell “it is not known what” and this has him living on “alert”.
“She lives on alert, anxious, restless because she doesn’t know what they are going to do to her. Whether to sedate, poison or move her to an unknown direction,” the message says.
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this week Carolina Ribera, Daughter of Áñez, asked to have access to the medical history of the mother, since she indicated that she does not know the treatment that they are doing to him, although the Penitentiary Regime maintained that nobody is denied this document to him and that the young man participated in a medical board.
Saturday the Government Ministries reported that Áñez tried to generate “self-harm” which he described as “scratching” and has argued that the interim former president was stable.
For its part, the defense of the former president said that Áñez had these injuries with a clip and that his wounds needed sutures.
After the incident former presidents, local authorities and international bodies such as the European union and the Embassy of the United States they expressed their concern for Áñez’s health.
In addition, several called for her to be allowed to defend herself freely in the face of her situation, as she suffers from high blood pressure and depressive anxiety syndrome.
MEDICAL TESTS
Áñez, who is being held in a women’s prison since March Peace, She was taken to a private medical center for a neurological CT scan.
“This will determine if there are injuries to the muscles or nerves,” he told the media Monica Molina, The doctor in charge of the study.
The former president climbed the steps of the place with difficulty and with the help of her two children in the middle of a strong police guard.
After undergoing this test, she was taken back to prison in an ambulance.
Áñez left the penitentiary this month about three times to undergo different clinical assessments.
Her family says she is weak while the Government he maintains that he is “stable” and fit to serve his pretrial detention.
PROTESTS IN PRISON
A dozen inmates of the prison where Áñez is detained demonstrated on Tuesday to demand equal treatment and denounce alleged “privileges” of the former president, a version that is seconded by authorities to deny that their rights are being violated.
the Minister of Government (Interior), Eduardo de el Castell, He has assured that the rights of the former president are “protected”, but has insisted that she has “privileges” over other detainees.
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That’s why he announced that “a legislative initiative” is being worked on to “transform prisons.”
“We will not allow some people to have privileges and others who are not even guaranteed the fulfillment of all their rights,” De el Castell stressed.
Meanwhile, Ribera posted some photos on his social media to show his mother’s cell.
“A bed, a table, two chairs, a small radio and a sink. These are my mother’s ‘luxuries’,” the young woman wrote.
Áñez has been in pre-trial detention since March for the so-called “coup d’état” based on allegations of alleged conspiracy, sedition and terrorism during the 2019 political and social crisis that led to Evo Morales ’resignation from the presidency.
For the “coup” case, which is being investigated at the request of the government Movement for Socialism (MAS), Two former ministers of Áñez and several police and military ex-prisoners are also in pre-trial detention.