Former Bolivian interim president Jeanine Anez’s pre-trial detention was extended by two months Saturday, as a prison official announced the ex-leader will receive medical care at the La Paz penitentiary where she is being held.
Anez was transferred Saturday to the Miraflores Women’s Penitentiary from another detention centre in the Bolivian capital, following what the ex-president said was a “hypertension crisis.” Anez has been charged with terrorism, sedition and conspiracy alongside her former justice and energy ministers, all of whom are being held in pre-trial detention which was extended from four to six months Saturday following a hearing.
Anez was arrested March 14 along with her two ex-ministers on charges related to Morales’s ouster from power in 2019.