Former President Áñez celebrates the fourth day of fasting isolated and incommunicado from her family

 He only receives visits from his lawyers. After complaining, she was allowed to receive a visit from her relatives the next week. Her daughter denounces that prison doctors are insensitive.

With broken health and incommunicado, this is how former president Jeanine Áñez completes her fourth day of hunger strike in the Miraflores prison in La Paz. The former president took the extreme measure in the face of the announcements of trials and the unfavorable rulings against her by the justice system, which accuses her of carrying out a coup against former President Evo Morales, who resigned in 2019 overwhelmed by the social conflicts that erupted after indications of fraud in the elections of that year.

In an interview on the program ¡Qué Semana!, which is broadcast every Saturday on EL DEBER Radio, Carolina Ribera Áñez -daughter of the former president- reported that Áñez is isolated in her cell without being able to receive a visit from any family member.

The most unfortunate, according to Ribera, is the deteriorated state of health of her mother and the isolation to which she has been subjected by the Penitentiary Regime. In fact, the only contact that the former president has is with her lawyers, who reported on the deteriorating state of health of Jeanine Áñez.

“My mother begins her fourth day of hunger strike, I have not been able to see her. She remains firm and determined; She is not going to live in a country where injustice and abuse of power prevail, despite her delicate health situation, ”said Ribera.

The daughter of the former head of state also denounced that the Penitentiary Regime does not allow her to see her mother, which generates mistrust about her health. “Doctors are insensitive, they lie without batting an eyelid. God grant that they prioritize my mother's health. She is totally incommunicado, she only sees her lawyers, ”said the young woman.

During the conflicts of 2019 that arose due to indications of fraud in the elections of that year, Áñez took the reins of the State through constitutional succession, after the resignation of Evo Morales. However, when leaving power, the former authority denounced a coup d'état forged by civic leaders, police and military.

Morales' resignation occurred on November 10, 2019. For two days there was a power vacuum and after several negotiations that included supporters of the MAS, the constitutional succession of Áñez was agreed, who took the reins of the country on November 12. month.

Before that, she did not participate in any protest activities. Her rise to power came as a surprise even to her own party, which did not count her on the security list in that year's elections. She was a senator for Beni, and as the second vice president of the Bolivian Chamber of Senators, she came to power by constitutional succession.

However, the government that is in the hands of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), questioned this process, even accused it of being part of the so-called coup d'état, a story that the ruling party has tried to impose since it regained power in the elections of 2020. In this sense, it initiated processes against all the former authorities of the transitional government, including Áñez.

"She is so weak that I honestly don't know how long she will resist, but she will continue until her body and her health allow it," Ribera said.