Bolivian Court Issues Arrest Warrants For Former President, Ministers

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          Bolivian court issues ARREST warrants for former interim  president Jeanine Anez and ministers who seized power after 2019 coup     

12 Mar, 2021
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'Interim president' of Bolivia, Jeanine Anez,  announces her withdrawal from the presidential race a month before the  elections in La Paz, Bolivia on September 17, 2020.

          A Bolivian court has issued warrants for the arrest of the  country's ex-president and nine other people, including ministers and  top military officials, over their role in a coup against former  president Evo Morales. On Friday, state prosecutors called for former interim president Jeanine Anez to be detained, along with five government ministers and four military chiefs, after they were accused of sedition, terrorism and conspiracy.Anez has reacted to the accusations, calling it "political persecution" on Twitter after learning she was wanted by the authorities.Among others facing arrest are General Williams Kaliman and former police commander Yuri Calderon. The latter called on then-president Morales to  resign in November 2019 despite the fact that he won the election, alleging the vote was rigged – a claim that was later debunked.

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'OAS misled public': MIT study finds 'NO evidence of fraud' in  Bolivian election that saw Evo Morales ousted in military coup     

Morales was forced to go into exile after the Bolivian security  forces sided with his opponents, with Anez's 'interim' conservative  government later taking power in the South American country. However,  she withdrew her candidacy from the next election in 2020 one day after  polls showed the pro-Morales candidate in the lead.  Morales'  Movement for Socialism party, now led by Luis Arce, won Bolivia's  general election, ousting Anez and ending her government's attempts to  prosecute Morales' supporters. On Friday Bolivia's former energy  and justice ministers, respectively, Rodrigo Guzmán and Alvaro Coimbra,  had also been arrested in the northern city of Trinidad and are to be  transferred to the country's administrative capital, La Paz.

Bolivian court issues ARREST warrants for former interim president Jeanine Anez and ministers who seized power after 2019 coup — RT World News
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