Jeanine Áñez denounced torture and abuse in a letter written by her own hand from the prison where she is being held

Former interim president of Bolivia Jeanine Áñez made themselves known this Tuesday on their social networks a letter from his own hand in which he denounces torture and abuse since she was detained a week ago and calls “dictatorshipTo the government of Luis Arce.

“To the Bolivian people. My first words to the Bolivian people from the dictatorship prison ”, this is how the letter from the former provisional president begins in what would be her first public statement since she was imprisoned.

Áñez, who is on trial in the case known as the “coup” and accused of crimes of sedition and terrorism, claims repeatedly throughout the seven pages of his letter thatthere was no blow. It was a fraudWhat happened during the 2019 crisis that led to the resignation of Evo Morales as President of Bolivia.

The former interim president maintains that her words come from “courage and firmness, it is a fight for democracy and we will give it to the end“.

Áñez served a week in prison on Monday since a judge ordered preventive detention, initially for four months, then extended to six months, due to the risk of escape.

END YOUR HEALTH

Jeanine Áñez’s health has also become a legal battle.

Last Friday, a judge ordered in full hearing the transfer to a clinic because of the deterioration of his clinical picture due to the hypertension from which he suffers, a measure which a few hours later was canceled by the same regulator, which instead asked for the prison change, which it went into effect on Saturday morning.

“They have already taken my freedom (…) now they want to take my health“She affirms and emphasizes that they have not allowed the government to see independent doctors, whom she says” to be wary of “because they are part of the” system of abuse and repression “.

Áñez points out that if something “bigger” happens to his health, he directly blames “Luis Arce, (government minister) Eduardo del Castillo, (police commander) Jhonny Aguilera, (justice minister) Iván Lima and the prison authorities.“.

The director general of the Bolivian penitentiary regime, Juan Carlos Limpias, clarified last Saturday that the court had ordered to take Áñez to a clinic. was revoked by the same judge and it was decided to transfer her to another prison so that the forensic institute would be in charge of “checking the state of health” of the old authority.

“I am one more, I am serene, here I am and here I am until my body supports me“, He says and reiterates that he does not intend to leave Bolivia, as at the time when they did in 2019” those who resigned cowardly not to take over a country in fire “.

DICTATORSHIP AND ABUSE

“Today the dictatorship imputes me for crimes that I did not commit. I have never been a terrorist. I assumed the presidency by constitutional succession to pacify Bolivia. There was no coup, there was fraud“, Áñez denounces the process against him which he supports, like most sectors of the opposition, is a”political persecution“.

It also indicates that she has suffered “abuse” from the time she was apprehended. in his hometown of Trinidad, in the Amazonian department of Beni, then transferred in a Bolivian Air Force Hercules plane to La Paz and held in the dungeons of the Special Crime Fighting Force (Felcc).

He also says his nephews, 20 and 28, were tortured by the police who took part in the operation for his arrest and that other members of his family, the elderly and children were “threatened”.

“We can’t get in, I’m homeless, we can’t take out my clothes, my medsReveals the former interim president who is incarcerated in the Miraflores women’s prison, isolated by the quarantine that she must maintain according to the protocol against COVID-19 in the prisons.

“I am a single mother and if they kill me in one way or another (…) I just want to ask the Bolivian people for the safety of my children and my family and that the Bolivians never give up in the face of the dictatorship and the persecution policy»End the letter with the signature and your identification number.

(With information from EFE)

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