The MAS has decided to return to the styles of the dictatorship. A shame because Bolivia does not need dictators, it needs freedom and solutions, Anez tweeted.
Former Bolivian interim president Jeanine Anez said on Friday that she and former Cabinet members faced arrest over an alleged coup. In a tweet, she said, The political persecution has begun. Prosecutors accused them of terrorism and sedition related to the ouster of long-time leader Evo Morales.
Morales and his MAS socialist party returned to power following elections last October. Last year, Luis Arce, a former economy minister, won the presidential election in a landslide, enabling Morales to return to Cochabamba from exile.
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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.
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.
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LA PAZ – Bolivia s former interim president Jeanine Anez was arrested early Saturday in relation to the 2019 political crisis in which she replaced predecessor Evo Morales, according to a government minister. I inform the Bolivian people that Mrs. Jeanine Anez has already been apprehended and is currently in the hands of the police, minister of government Carlos Eduardo del Castillo wrote on Twitter and Facebook.
The conservative politician had faced an arrest warrant on charges of terrorism, sedition and conspiracy over an alleged coup after she replaced Morales in November 2019 when he fled the country during widespread protests against his re-election.