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Jailed Bolivian Ex-President Anez Denied Transfer to Hospital

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   A Bolivian judge retracted his decision to allow for former president
   Jeanine Anez to be transferred from jail to a hospital so she could
   receive medical attention for alleged high blood pressure. The judge
   argued that hospital doctors can enter the jail facility to examine and
   treat her.
   Judge Armando Zeballos of Bolivia's court in its administrative capital
   of La Paz justified his decision saying that Anez must remain isolated
   in the detention center to avoid contracting COVID-19.
   Anez, 53, who was sentenced to four months pre-trial detention a week
   ago accused of inciting a coup d'état against her predecessor, is
   being held in a women's prison in La Paz.
   Anez family and her defense attorney, Ariel Coronado, said although
   Bolivian justice officials authorized the transfer, the government of
   President Luis Arce, who chairs the ruling party, Movement for
   Socialism (MAS), has refused to comply with the order. "Once again we
   are facing abuse by the government of the most basic human rights,"
   said a [1]message sent from Anez' Twitter account.
   "It seems to me that they want to see my mother dead, they have no will
   for anything, I brought a cardiologist, but they won't let him in
   either. I am very indignant and I know that my mother has another
   crisis," Anez' daughter Carolina Ribera said while waiting at the gate
   of the La Paz prison.
   Anez was [2]arrested on March 13 on terrorism, sedition and conspiracy
   charges to topple her predecessor Evo Morales.

   Anez, a lawyer and former senator for the center-right Democrat Social
   Movement, took power after her predecessor Morales and most
   parliamentarians from his MAS party resigned and fled the country in
   November 2019 as violent protests erupted across Bolivia amid
   accusations that he rigged the election.

   The claims were supported by international organizations.
   Morales returned to Bolivia from exile after his former economy
   minister, current President Luis Arce led MAS to victory in the October
   2020 elections.

   Besides the presidency, MAS currently controls the Bolivian
   legislature.

References

   1. https://twitter.com/JeanineAnez/status/1373063333096603653
   2. https://www.voanews.com/americas/detained-former-bolivian-president-reject-terrorism-sedition-and-conspiracy-charges