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Bolivian court extends preventive detention of Áñez for six more months

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Bolivia’s former interim president Jeanine Áñez will spend at least a year in prison after a judge decided today, August 3, to extend the period of preventive detention for six more months, a week after the former president completed five months in prison in La Paz. Áñez, who was Bolivia’s transitional president from 2019 to 2020, was apprehended on March 6 at her residence in the Amazonian department of Beni and is accused of sedition and terrorism in the case known as “coup d’état” during the political crisis faced by Bolivia in 2019.

Bolivia's Jeanine Anez: From president to 'coup' accused

Bolivia's Jeanine Anez: From president to 'coup' accused

Bolivia's Jeanine Anez: From president to 'coup' accused

The Return of Democracy and an Uncertain Future - International Viewpoint

Bolivia Saturday 16 January 2021, by Bret Gustafson Bolivia has given the world an impressive lesson in democracy, but reactionary sectors of the country are once again revealing their anti-democratic impulse. On October 18, 2020, the country went to the polls for the second time in a year. Despite the pandemic and intense polarization, they delivered 55 percent of the vote to Luís Arce, the candidate of the left-leaning MAS (Movement to Socialism) party. That would not be so remarkable, given that the MAS party had overseen 14 years of economic growth. But in the wake of the turmoil that followed the 2019 elections a process that saw massive protests of fraud and, in the end, a military-backed ouster of then President Evo Morales many thought that the time of the MAS had come to an end. They were wrong.