The family of former Bolivian president Jeanine Áñez has announced their intention to go to international bodies to appeal the sentence published on Friday for which Áñez has been sentenced to ten years in prison for the ‘Coup d’etat II’ case.
Áñez’s children assure that the judicial process had “irregularities” and therefore they will take the case abroad. Carolina Ribera, daughter of Áñez, has explained that they will go to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) because “all instances in Bolivia have already been exhausted and there is no justice here.” Ribera considers that “several irregularities” and “human rights violations” were committed in the trial, according to the Bolivian newspaper ‘El Deber’.
“In the international arena there are no longer any political parties, there is no longer any political interference, there is no longer any revenge, there are no longer any little friends who give orders.
Justice will be done, what is appropriate will be done, what is legal, and the country’s authorities will be shamed,” he added.
“We will never abandon my mother. She did the right thing. My mother is a political prisoner. We know that this trial was totally unfair. There were many irregularities. All my mother’s rights were violated. Then we are going to go through the international route and (there) we will find justice, ”explained José Armando Ribera Áñez.
Áñez -in preventive detention since March 2021- is accused in the framework of what happened in November 2019, when the then president, Evo Morales, left office. Two days later, Áñez herself, then a senator, assumed the Presidency of Bolivia. As expected, the sentence against Áñez has reopened the enormous political fracture that still exists in the country.
