The arrest of former Bolivian President Janine Anez on corruption charges

 Today, Saturday, the Bolivian government announced the arrest of former interim president Janine Anez, on corruption charges. Bolivian Interior Minister Carlos Eduardo de Castiglio said on his Twitter account, according to Russia Today, that the police had arrested Anez, who led The country over a year, during a period between November 2019 and November 2020.

The Bolivian authorities yesterday arrested the former Minister of Justice and Energy, Alvaro Coimbra and Rodrigo Josman, and these measures come in light of the issuance of the Prosecutor's Office for Corruption Cases in Bolivia yesterday, arrest warrants for Anez and 10 officials in her government, including former ministers, on charges of terrorism, high treason and criminal complicity, and the government announced Bolivia, prosecutions begin against former interim president Janine Agnes, former presidential candidate Luis Fernando Camacho, and other right-wing opposition officials.

"Russia Today" channel reported that the Bolivian Ministry of Justice has submitted a request to Parliament to try Agnes; Because of the "political violence" that followed the cancellation of the legislative elections last year, explaining that Parliament Speaker Freddy Mamani referred the ministry's request to the Constitution Committee; She added that Lydia Patty, a former member of the now ruling "Movement Toward Socialism", had also filed a complaint with the Criminal Court against Camacho, and other right-wing officials, on charges of carrying out a "coup" against the former president, Evo Morales, who was forced to resign in The year 2019, while Camacho defended the moves that took place at that time, stressing that "there was no coup, but rather a movement of citizens who took to the streets to demonstrate."

Media reported that the Bolivian police refused at the time of the protests to obey orders, and that the army in turn withdrew its support for Morales, who resigned in November 2019, before leaving the country for Mexico and then to Argentina, and then returned to his country after his party won the elections this year.

In the same context, the right-wing opposition spoke of “fraud” in the elections that took place in October 2019, in favor of Morales, who ran for a fourth term ending in 2025, and then violence exploded across the country, after these elections, whose results were eventually canceled, as they resulted in Violence that took place last year killed 35 people.