Social movements in Bolivia prevented the escape of Jeanine Áñez to Brazil

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Dateline: Caracas, Quedate a Ver, 24 Nov 2020

Bolivian social movements reported that former de facto president Jeanine Áñez tried to escape to Brazil, but her escape was prevented and she is being held in the city of Trinidad. A representative of social organizations in the department of Beni, in northern Bolivia, announced that they prevented Áñez from boarding a plane at the city's Jorge Henrich Arauz airport when he was trying to go to a border city and then go to Brazil. The act they considered was the flight of the ex-ruler, HispanTV reported.

“We cornered her when she was escaping to Brazil. We arrested her and she is locked up in an apartment and now she must respond for the massacres in Senkata and Sacaba," said the spokesman, who is not identified in the video circulating on social networks. Last week, former Minister of Government Arturo Murillo fled the country and arrived in Panama. While former Defense Minister Fernando López is in Brazil. In this regard, three officials of the Bolivian Immigration Dept. were arrested for allowing the two fugitives to escape.

• KEYS:
• After the inauguration of the president of Bolivia, Luis Arce, the prevailing corruption during the de facto government has been revealed, and there are already some 24 cases open in the nation's justice system.
• The Plurinational Legislative Assembly recommended last October to the Public Ministry (Prosecutor's Office) to initiate a trial of responsibilities against Áñez for the massacres of Sacaba, in Cochabamba and Senkata, in El Alto, which occurred in November 2019. In this document, he is accused of the alleged commission of the crimes of genocide, torture, forced disappearances and others.
• The Armed Forces and the Police were key in the coup on November 10, 2019, which forced former President Evo Morales to leave office. On several occasions, the indigenous leader has charged against the Bolivian high ranking military commanders for decorating "coup leaders" who massacred the population.
• In this new stage that Bolivia is experiencing, after the inauguration of the candidate of the Movement for Socialism (MAS), Luis Arce, as president of the country, the authorities, himself included, have promised to investigate the various crimes committed during the year that Áñez was in the government.