translated from Spanish: Former Interim Bolivian President Jeanine Añez suffers decompensation in prison

Former Interim President of Bolivia Jeanine Añez, imprisoned for more than a month in La Paz, suffered a decompensation in her health that requires complementary laboratory tests determined after a review by private and state doctors at the request of her defense lawyers. In the morning, the former interim president’s accounts on Facebook and Twitter posted a message informing that “Añez presented a decompensation in her state of health today,” so she was “urgently asked to join private medical personnel” in prison for review.” We were told this morning that she last night had a fever, 39 degrees, vomiting and severe abdominal pain,” attorney Ariel Coronado, part of the team defending the former interim host, told Efe. Therefore, authorization was requested for an internist to enter the women’s prison in the paceño neighborhood of Miraflores, where the former transient governor is pre-emptively detained, he said. The lawyer recalled that whenever Añez requires a health review, the authorities demand that it be “joint” between its private doctors and those of the Directorate of Prison Regime, under the Ministry of Government (Interior). The doctor was finally able to enter the penalty in the middle of the afternoon and was asked to perform complementary laboratory examinations in Añez, which will be done on Tuesday, according to local media reports. A statement disseminated at night on the former president’s social media notes that “she encounters a picture of hyperventilation, febrile syndrome and acute stomach pains, which could result from a likely kidney complication or another” that should be ruled out by the laboratory tests requested. These reviews “are urgent” and should have been carried out on this day, which “was not possible due to the refusal of the Criminal Governorate,” the statement states. The note also reports that in recent days there has been a “delay” in requests for the entry of specialist doctors and laboratory equipment” to care for Childhood, which “continues to harm its already delicate state of health”. THE BACKGROUND has been in prison for more than a month for the so-called “coup de State” case based on allegations of alleged conspiracy, sedition and terrorism during the political and social crisis that occurred at the end of 2019 that resulted in Morales’ resignation from the presidency and the annulment of that year’s elections amid allegations of fraud. The arrest of the transitional former president and two of her former ministers created tensions between officialism, which argues that “justice” is sought in the face of what they consider a “coup d’eta” against Evo Morales, and the opposition denouncing political “persecution”, as well as pronouncements by international organizations that called for due process to be respected. Last week there was also a controversy between officialism and the opposition following a visit by a commission of deputies to the criminal. Government Deputies Movement to Socialism (MAS) say the former president enjoys alleged privileges in prison, while opponents report that several of her rights are violated. A group of parliamentarians from the opposition blocs Comunidad Ciudadana and Creemos announced a trip to the United States to denounce before international bodies the “violation of democratic order” and the “political persecution” of the Government of Luis Arce against opponents, police and military for the 2019 crisis.

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