Mauricio Macri asked the OAS and the UN for the life of former Bolivian president Jeanine ñez, who is in prison

Mauricio Macri and other former presidents of Spain and Latin America on Monday called on the Organization of American States (OAS) and the United Nations to intervene to protect the life of Jeanine Añez.

The former provisional president of Bolivia has been in preventive detention for five months, under three different procedures: genocide, terrorism and conspiracy. This is a case promoted by former President Evo Morales who claims that there was a coup against his government in 2019 for which he holds Añez responsible.

In addition, Macri’s support for Añez comes as he continues to develop the cause that Alberto Fernández’s government defended against his predecessor for the alleged shipment of ammunition to Bolivia for “coup d’etat” purposes. “. Macri and his former officials denied that the ammunition sent to Bolivia in 2019 – and that it remained there after Fernández came to power – had any other purpose than to protect the Argentine embassy in La Paz.

The document now signed by some 20 former presidents, including Macri, coincides with the crisis suffered by Añez in prison. This Monday, his family said he was “stable”, after self-harm that was caused in prison . In fact, the UN has already recommended paying attention to safeguarding its integrity.

The former heads of state and government who signed are those who participate in the Democratic Initiative of Spain and the Americas (IDEA). In the text they signed, they asked the UN and the OAS to “Take care of the rights to liberty, life and personal integrity of the former Bolivian ruler.”

In the document, they urge the OAS Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and its executive secretariat, Tania Reneaum Panszi, “to adopt precautionary measures.”

Likewise, they called on the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, “to exercise her powers swiftly and effectively” to protect ñez.

Former governors said they were “gravely concerned” about the state of Áñez and recalled that under the inter-American system for the protection of human rights “no one shall be subjected to arrest or to human rights. imprisonment for causes and methods which – even classified as legal – may be considered incompatible with respect for the fundamental rights of the individual ”.

They alluded to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (I / A Court HR) by stressing that the State is the “guarantor” of the detainees and in this case of Áñez’s health, for the five months of preventive detention in a prison in La Paz.

Former presidents lamented “the lack of humanitarian treatment” to the former president and they remembered that “He exercised a transitional government accepted by the Organization of American States (OAS) and the European Union.

The Bolivian state and its government are “internationally responsible for the life and personal integrity” of Áñez, they said.

Besides the former Argentine president and head of the PRO, the following people signed the demand to the OAS and the UN for Añez: José María Aznar (Spain), Óscar Arias, Rafael Ángel Calderón, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Laura Chinchilla and Luis Guillermo Solís (Costa Rica), Nicolás Ardito Barletta, Ernesto Pérez Balladares and Mireya Moscoso (Panama), Felipe Calderón and Vicente Fox (Mexico), Alfredo Cristiani (El Salvador) and Federico Franco and Juan Carlos Wasmosy (Paraguay), Eduardo Frei (Chile)), Andrés Pastrana and Álvaro Uribe (Colombia), Osvaldo Hurtado and Jamil Mahuad (Ecuador), Luis Alberto Lacalle and Julio María Sanguinetti (Uruguay) and Jorge Tuto Quiroga (Bolivia).