The United States Department of State accused Bolivian President Luis Arce of directing the court case against the former President Jeanine Anez and other members of his cabinetaccording to the section dedicated to the South American country of the report prepared each year by the aforementioned organization for human rights in the world.
According to the US report the current ruler Bolivian has also put pressure on the judges responsible for criminal proceedings against members of the previous government.
“Both Police Chief Jhonny Aguilera and Government Minister Eduardo del Castillo flew to Trinidad, Bolivia, where Añez lived, to oversee their arrest. The presence of these senior officials, highly irregular for an arrest operation, was an indicator of this The government at the highest level presided over the trial of Añez and others and put enormous pressure on the judges which already lacked real independence”, reads a fragment of the report quoted by the newspaper Página Siete.
The U.S. State Department document also noted that “Attorney General Iván Lima said in an interview on March 23 The government launched a criminal case against Añez because the government lacked votes in the legislature to approve his removal from office”.
He also adds: “Legal experts noted that the minister’s statement indicated that the government was more interested in Añez’s detention than in a fair trial.”
That added the US agency in the trial of Añez the duration of preventive detention has exceeded the fixed monthly limit.
The State Department document, released this Tuesday and relating to 2021, It serves as a guide for the US Congress in determining the amount of foreign aid it provides to each nation.
In a press conference, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned that Washington had seen each other last year a deterioration in the human rights situation and a continuation of the rise of authoritarianism in many parts of the world.
In the section dedicated to Cuba, The report recalled that in July last year “the biggest protests in decades“ to “call for an end to repression” and recalled that many demonstrators were arrested and imprisoned in “cruel” conditions, while others had to go into exile.
“Government officials, on orders from their superiors, committed the worst human rights violations‘ the State Department claimed in its report, which also negatively highlighted countries such as Nicaragua, China and Russia.