Former Bolivian Leader Is Arrested for Ouster of Morales
Jeanine Añez served as interim president for a year, after Evo Morales was forced out. Other members of her government have reportedly been arrested.
Jeannine Añez, Boliviaâs former interim president, was escorted away by police officers in La Paz on Saturday.Credit.Aizar Raldes/Agence France-Presse â Getty Images
March 12, 2021
Boliviaâs former interim president, Jeanine Añez, said Friday that she and several allies face arrest following the issuance of a warrant accusing her of terrorism and sedition in connection with the 2019 ouster of her predecessor, former president Evo Morales.
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The return of the left to power in Bolivia is a product of the role played by social movement organisations of workers, peasants and indigenous people in organising militant resistance to the usurpation of power by the extreme right wing.
On 12 November 2019, Evo Morales was on an air force jet on his way to exile in Mexico. He stepped down when the chief of the armed forces “suggested” that he resign after protests over unproved allegations of electoral fraud. Nearly a year later, he returned to Bolivia through the land frontier accompanied by Alberto Fernández, the President of Argentina. From there, accompanied by a three-day 800-vehicle caravan, stopping at various points, including Orinoca, the rural community where he was born and raised, Morales went to Chapare, the place where he came of age politically as the leader of the coca-growing peasants. A day earlier, the candidate of the Movimiento al Socialismo (Movement Towards Socialism–MAS), Luis Arce Catacora, the form