08/21/2021 1:23 PM
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Updated 08/21/2021 1:23 PM
The former interim president of Bolivia, Jeanine Áñez, allegedly caused "self-harm" to her arms, in an alleged suicide attempt in the prison where she is staying.
But his state of health is "stable" and only "has a few small scratches," as announced this Saturday by the Minister of Government, Eduardo Del Castillo.
The Attorney General's Office filed a formal accusation against Áñez on Friday "for acts provisionally classified as" genocide, serious injuries and injury followed by death, "for the Senkata and Sacaba massacres, which occurred in the midst of the revolt that forced then-President Evo Morales to leave the country and denounce a coup, in November 2019.
On Friday, Jorge Quiroz, Áñez's lawyer, had warned that the former president's life "is in danger" in the custody of the authorities.
"It is not understood, in the health condition that she has, that she is quite deteriorated, which is public knowledge, having high blood pressure raises it to more than 4,000 meters above sea level," said the lawyer, after a medical check on Añez.
"What is the government's intention? Definitely, at the moment Jeanine Añez's life in the hands of the government is in danger," Quiroz told the Bolivian news agency ANF.
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