The photo of Jeanine Añez in prison after her suicide attempt

A black and white image crossed by the bars of the Miraflores women’s prison in which the former Bolivian president leans with one hand against the glass and looks deteriorated. Jeanine ñez.

This is the image his team shared on Thursday, via his Twitter account, as well as words of gratitude to the people who demonstrated up there to ask for his delicate health.

Thanks, Bolivia. Thanks Amparo. Since my unjust and dark imprisonment, I can feel them in my heart. Thank you”They wrote next to the photo.

On Thursday, a group of people convened by the Permanent Assembly of Human Rights of Bolivia (APDHB) demanded that the former interim president Áñez freely defends himself in proceedings against him at the request of the ruling party.

THEhe mobilization was led by the president of the APDHB, Amparo Carvajal, whom Áñez thanked in the tweet. with Áñez’s children, his children, Caroline and José Armando Ribera, in addition to the President of the Departmental Legislative Assembly of the Eastern Region of Santa Cruz, Zvonko Matkovic, and dozens of people from citizen platforms carrying Bolivian flags.

Helped by a cane, the activist Amparo Carvajal, 82, walked from the APDHB headquarters in the city center to the women’s prison in the Miraflores neighborhood, towards the east side of the city, accompanied by dozens of people from civic platforms opposed to the government of Luis Arce.

When you get to jail The mobilization clashed with another group at the gates who, wearing the multicolored indigenous Wiphala badge, demanded “justice” for the dead in the so-called Senkata and Sacaba massacres during the 2019 crisis and also demanded that ñez remain in prison.

When Carvajal tried to converse with journalists, The groups opposed to Áñez shouted “assassins” at the other mobilized and started to lay eggs on the activist, Before that, the police had to protect and escort her so that she managed to leave the scene.

The two groups then exchanged insults and shoving, and opponents of the ex-president destroyed other people’s banners.

Áñez’s health has again been the subject of controversy due to recent visits to medical checks in which she was weak and deteriorated.While the prison regime insists that it is “stable” and that his chronic illnesses can be cured in prison.

The weekend, The former interim president gave her arm wounds that the government called “scratches”, while her family said they needed stitches.

ñez, who suffers from high blood pressure and anxiety depressive syndrome, repeatedly asked to be able to defend himself in complete freedom or change the prison for house arrest, which was refused.

In some prisons in Bolivia, during the last hours, statements of prisoners who demand “equal treatment” and denounce the alleged “privileges” of the former president, a version supported by the authorities to deny that their rights are violated.

(With information from EFE)

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