In this file photo taken on March 13, 2021 Former interim Bolivia’s President Jeanine Anez is escorted by police members of the Special Force against Crime after being arrested in La Paz. AFPPIX: Bolivian ex-president Jeanine Anez was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison, more than a year after her arrest for an alleged plot -- dismissed as fictional by many -- to oust her rival and predecessor Evo Morales.
The former interim leader will serve 10 years in a women's prison in La Paz, the city's First Sentencing Court announced in a decision that comes three months after her trial began. Right-wing Anez became Bolivia's interim president in November 2019 after Morales, who claimed to have won a fourth consecutive term as president, fled the country in the face of mass protests against alleged electoral fraud.
Many who would have succeeded Morales -- all members of his MAS party -- also resigned and fled. This left opposition member Anez, then vice-president of the senate, as the highest ranking official remaining.