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Justice closes in on Bolivia's Jeanine Anez
MIRIAM AMANCAY COLQUE ridicules a letter by Jeanine Anez in which the former leader of Bolivian coup d'etat against Evo Morales pleads innocence
A woman holds a placard "Jail for the coup murderer" outside the police station where Jeanine Anez is being held in La Paz, Bolivia

BOLIVIA’S former coup president Jeanine Anez, through a letter made public, victimises herself and indicates that she fears for her life and pleads not guilty. It appears that she suffers from total amnesia.
 
On October 20 2019, election day, Citizen Community presidential candidate Carlos Mesa cried “fraud” and called for the upheaval that led to the burning of departmental electoral courts, forced resignations of members of the constitutional government of Evo Morales by fascist groups that threatened, burned their houses or kidnapped and even tortured their relatives – as in the case of the former president of the Chamber of Deputies Victor Borda, whose brother was savagely tortured in the middle of the public square and many other cases.

In November 2019, in a completely colonial interventionist attitude, even before Evo Morales’s resignation, a meeting took place at the Catholic University called by the European Union and the hierarchy of the Catholic Church that was attended by ambassadors from Spain, Brazil, a US delegate, Jorge Tuto Quiroga, Carlos Mesa, Luis Fernando Camacho, Samuel Doria Medina and other political parties. They decided that Jeanine Anez would be sworn in as president. 

Anez then took power with the bible in hand. Supported by neo-fascist groups led by Luis Fernando Camacho, Marco Pumari and the national and international far right, in the style of Juan Guaido she proclaimed herself president in an illegal session violating Article 169 of the constitution.

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