Breitbart
Lawyers for conservative former President Jeanine Áñez announced on Monday that they would appeal a conviction handed down last week by a Bolivian court sentencing her to ten years in prison for constitutionally assuming the presidency in 2019.
The socialist-controlled government accused Áñez for years of staging a “coup” against predecessor Evo Morales. In reality, Morales voluntarily fled the country in November 2019 after the Organization of American States (OAS) published a report finding irregularities indicating fraud in the presidential election a month prior. Morales took dozens of cabinet members from his Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) party with him to Mexico, leaving Áñez, then a senior senator, the top person in the constitutional line of succession left in the country at the time she was sworn in.
A judge sentenced Áñez to a decade in prison on the “coup” charges but did not address previous attempts to charge her with “terrorism,” “genocide,” or other spurious crimes.
