Daughter of Jeanine Áñez fears for the health of former president 5:43
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The defense of the former interim president of Bolivia, Jeanine Áñez, presented this Thursday a judicial request for specialists to evaluate her in a clinic, because, according to what they argue, she had high pressure the day before, informed her lawyer Norka Cuéllar .
The prison authorities indicated that, according to the doctors of the prison system, Áñez had had "a quiet night."
They also said that he was taking a medicine he already used for high blood pressure.
However, Cuéllar told CNN that he visited Áñez on Thursday morning and that the former interim president was sedated and delicate.
Although "relatively stable," he completed.
Daughter of Jeanine Áñez denounces that her mother needs medical attention and could not be transferred to the hospital
Áñez's daughter, Carolina Ribera, confirmed to CNN on Wednesday that the family's intention was to transfer her to a clinic in the south of La Paz.
But, she explained that this did not occur because "unexpectedly there was a counter-order that prevented her being admitted to the waiting ambulance."
Prison authorities respond to the status of Jeanine Áñez
For his part, the national director of the Penitentiary Regime, Juan Carlos Limpias, assured that Áñez is "totally stable" in his state of health.
"We want to categorically deny all those falsehoods that appear on social networks," he said Thursday in statements to the state channel Bolivia TV.
He added that on Wednesday night they allowed one of his lawyers to enter the prison.
Also to the representation of the Ombudsman's Office to verify the conditions of Áñez.
"We respect rights," he said.
Limpias added that, according to the technical information he had from the medical staff, "it is not necessary to carry out any evacuation to any health center since we have the facilities to deal with this type of eventuality."
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Questions are growing about the arrest of former Bolivian President Jeanine Áñez
Carolina Ribera said that “they are supposed to treat everyone the same before the law.
But nevertheless her family (from Áñez), her children who are José Armando and I, we have not been able to see her until now ».
Then he added: “We do not know in what condition it is, we do not know if it is true, because they have given a press conference where you cannot see my mother.
They can say what they want, but we don't know if what they say is true.
On Sunday, a La Paz Criminal Investigation judge ordered Áñez to be sent to a women's prison in La Paz under preventive detention for four months, while the investigations are carried out.
The Prosecutor's Office accused the former president and her former ministers of Justice and Energy of the crimes of "terrorism, conspiracy and sedition" in the framework of the case called "Coup d'état."
Jeanine Áñez affirmed that such a coup "never" happened.
And he denounced a political persecution against him and his former officials.
Jeanine Áñez
