Natasha Niebieskikwiat
08/23/2021 3:48 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 08/23/2021 4:03 PM
Mauricio Macri and other former presidents of Spain and Latin America on Monday asked the Organization of American States (OAS) and the United Nations to intervene to protect the life of Jeanine Añez.
The former provisional president of Bolivia has been in custody for five months, under three different processes: genocide, terrorism and conspiracy.
It is a case promoted by former president Evo Morales who affirms that there was a coup against his government in 2019 for which he holds Añez responsible.
Macri's support for Añez also occurs while he continues the development of the cause that the government of Alberto Fernández promoted against his predecessor for the alleged shipment of ammunition to Bolivia for "coup purposes."
Macri and his former officials denied that those munitions sent to Bolivia in 2019 - and that they remained there after Fernández came to power - had any other purpose than to protect the Argentine embassy in La Paz.
The document now signed by some twenty former presidents, including Macri, coincides with the crisis suffered by Añez in prison.
This Monday his family reported that he was "stable", after the
self-harm that was caused in jail
.
In fact, the UN has already recommended giving it attention to safeguard its integrity.
The former heads of state and government who signed are those who participate in
the Democratic Initiative of Spain and the Americas (IDEA)
.
In the text they signed, they asked the UN and the OAS to
"take care of the rights to liberty, life and personal integrity of the former Bolivian leader."
In the document, they urge the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) of the OAS and its executive secretariat, Tania Reneaum Panszi, "to adopt precautionary measures."
Similarly, they called on the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, "to exercise her powers quickly and effectively" to protect Áñez.
The former governors said that they have "serious concern" for the state of Áñez and recalled that under the Inter-American System for the Protection of Human Rights "no one can be subjected to arrest or imprisonment for causes and methods that - even classified as legal - may be considered incompatible. with respect for the fundamental rights of the individual ".
They alluded to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (I / A Court HR) by pointing out that the State is the "guarantor" of the inmates and in this case of Áñez's health, for the five months of preventive detention in a prison in La Paz.
The former presidents lamented
"the lack of humanitarian treatment" to the former president
and recalled that
"she exercised a transitional government accepted by the Organization of American States (OAS) and the European Union."
The Bolivian state and its government are "internationally responsible for the life and personal integrity" of Áñez, they said.
In addition to the former Argentine president and leader of the PRO, the following signed the claim to the OAS and the UN for Añez: José María Aznar (Spain), Óscar Arias, Rafael Ángel Calderón, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Laura Chinchilla and Luis Guillermo Solís (Costa Rica), Nicolás Ardito Barletta, Ernesto Pérez Balladares and Mireya Moscoso (Panama), Felipe Calderón and Vicente Fox (Mexico), Alfredo Cristiani (El Salvador) and Federico Franco and Juan Carlos Wasmosy (Paraguay), Eduardo Frei (Chile), Andrés Pastrana and Álvaro Uribe (Colombia), Osvaldo Hurtado and Jamil Mahuad (Ecuador), Luis Alberto Lacalle and Julio María Sanguinetti (Uruguay) and Jorge Tuto Quiroga (Bolivia).
