Bolivia: Jeanine Anez ‘stable’ after suicide attempt in jail
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Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/23/bolivia-jeanine-anez-stable-after-suicide-attempt-in-jail
Jailed former Bolivian President Jeanine Anez is in “stable” condition after she tried to take her own life after prosecutors charged her with “genocide” over the deaths of protesters in 2019. Anez, 54, was detained earlier this year over accusations that she participated in a coup to depose longtime former President Evo Morales in 2019. She has denied the allegations and says she is a victim of political persecution. She is in jail while awaiting trial. Anez also faces charges of terrorism, sedition and conspiracy. Under Anez’s administration, Bolivia held peaceful, transparent elections in October 2020 in which Morales’s protege Luis Arce won a landslide victory. Arce subsequently promised to pursue those he accused of staging a coup.
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