LA PAZ (Bolivia), June 7 — Bolivian prosecutors said yesterday they would seek a 15-year jail term for ex-president Jeanine Anez, who is on trial for an alleged plot —...
LA PAZ , June 7 — Bolivian prosecutors said yesterday they would seek a 15-year jail term for ex-president Jeanine Anez, who is on trial for an alleged plot — dismissed as fictional by many — to oust her rival and predecessor Evo Morales.
Anez faces charges in two trials — including a criminal case she attended via videoconference from her jail cell yesterday — for “breach of duty” and taking resolutions contrary to the Constitution when she was a senator, before becoming president. Right-wing Anez became Bolivia’s interim president in November 2019 after Morales, who claimed to have won a fourth, consecutive term as president, fled the country in the face of mass protests against alleged electoral fraud.