Bolivia’s conservative ex-interim president, who led the country for a year, has been arrested as officials of the restored leftist government target those who helped oust socialist leader Evo Morales in 2019.
Jeanine Áñez, who Morales supporters say was part of a coup, was detained early on Saturday morning in her home town of Trinidad and was flown to the capital, La Paz, where she appeared before a prosecutor.
“This is an abuse,” she told reporters after the appearance. “There was no coup d’etat, but a constitutional succession,” she said.
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From a police cell in La Paz, Áñez called on the Organization of American States and the European Union to send missions to Bolivia to evaluate what she called “an illegal detention”.
The arrest of Áñez and warrants against numerous other former officials further worsened political tensions in a South American country already torn by perceived wrongs suffered by both sides.
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