“I don’t want to live anymore”: the dramatic message from former Bolivian president Jeanine Añez after her suicide attempt

Two days after playing in suicide attempt, former acting Bolivian president jailed Jeanine Añez released from prison a dramatic message: “I don’t want to live anymore“, He wrote on his Twitter account.

“My children need to earn a living. I don’t want any more medicine, I don’t know what it is. I ask my jailers to tell me that I take“, He indicated in his last message.

The message is accompanied by a commentary written by his relatives on the situation facing the former president who governed Bolivia between November 12, 2019 and November 8, 2020 after the controversial departure of Evo Morales from power.

“Jeanine Añez is very weak. Suffering constantly. Every 10 minutes someone comes into his cell, to spy, to ask, which is unknown. She lives alert, anxious, restless, because she doesn’t know what to do to her. Whether it is to sedate her, poison her or transfer her without an unknown destination, ”says the message accompanying Añez’s statements.

Last Saturday, the Minister of the Government (Interior), Eduardo del Castillo, declared that Áñez tried to “self-harm” and he clarified that the former interim president has a few “scratches” on one arm, but is “stable”.

One of his defense attorneys, Jorge Valda, expressed in a video that it was “a message of help, of relief”, and asked that he be given the opportunity to “save his life “by defending himself in complete freedom.

What is she accused of

Áñez has been in detention for more than five months after being charged with crimes such as terrorism, sedition and conspiracy in the so-called case “Rebellion“Who is investigating the events of the political and social crisis of 2019.

Last week, the prosecutor’s office filed an accusatory demand against ñez to open a liability case for the deaths recorded in two regions after the failed 2019 elections. Those elections were canceled due to allegations of fraud against then president Evo Morales.

The former president claims to have been the victim of a hard blow. After his departure from government, Añez took over.

According to the newspaper The duty, the former president was transferred on Tuesday from Miraflores prison, where she is being held, to a private clinic in La Paz. There she was subjected to a neurophysiological study “to see if her nerves and muscles are functioning properly.”

On Monday, the daughter of the ex-president, Carolina Ribera, said that her mother “she is sedated, in shock, she does not remember what happened and she suffers from constant nervous breakdowns ”.