FORMER Bolivian acting president Jeanine Anez was arrested on Saturday on charges of terrorism and sedition.
She has been charged for her role in support of November 2019’s Washington-backed coup and subsequent bloodbath.
Images of her arriving at El Alto airport in La Paz circulated soon after her detention. A number of other former government ministers were also arrested.
Government minister Carlos Eduardo del Castillo confirmed the move and congratulated the police for their “great work” in the “historic task of giving justice” to the Bolivian people.
Ms Anez was appointed interim president after Evo Morales was ousted, following false allegations of electoral fraud.
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Bolivia's former acting president Jeanine Anez was arrested Saturday on terrorism and sedition charges over what her predecessor and political rival Evo Morales denounced as a "coup" that unseated him. Police were also rounding up former ministers who backed the conservative politician's caretaker government, which was in place for a year after Morales fled the country in November 2019 amid disputed elections, media reports said. The arrests.