A Bolivian prosecutor said Thursday he had requested six months of pre-trial detention for a key opposition leader and former presidential candidate detained a day earlier on charges of terrorism.
A Bolivian prosecutor said Thursday he had requested six months of pre-trial detention for a key opposition leader and former presidential candidate detained a day earlier on charges of "terrorism."
International News
Mar 13, 2021
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) Bolivia’s former interim president said Friday that authorities are seeking her arrest as they move against officials who backed the ouster of former leader Evo Morales, which his party now back in power considers a coup.
“The political persecution has begun,” Jeanine Añez, who headed a conservative administration that took power after Morales resigned in November 2019, said on her Twitter account. “There is a complaint they are going to use to persecute me.”
The Prosecutor’s Office did not confirm that an arrest warrant had been issued for Añez – as her former justice minister had tweeted – but police officers were seen guarding her home in the city of Trinidad, northeast of La Paz, Friday night, apparently without trying to arrest her. The former president was not at home.
Carlos Valdez
FILE - In this Nov. 19, 2019 file photo, an Army helicopter flies over the road leading to the state-own Senkata filling gas plant in El Alto, on the outskirts of La Paz, Bolivia, as supporters of former President Evo Morales set up barricades. On March 11, 2021, the Bolivian Prosecutor s Office has ordered the arrest of the former commander of the Armed Forces and the former chief of the police, for having requested Moralesâ resignation during the political crisis. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File) March 12, 2021 - 6:35 PM
LA PAZ, Bolivia - Bolivia s former interim president said Friday that authorities are seeking her arrest as they move against officials who backed the ouster of former leader Evo Morales, which his party â now back in power â considers a coup.