His brother says that in 2019 many were attached to him and "today they do not appear". Analysts see that the transition enjoys legitimacy in the international community, but that in the country the narrative of the "coup" is imposed.
After assuming the Presidency, Jeanine Añez crossed from the Plurinational Legislative Assembly (ALP) to the Palacio Quemado with an entourage. On the steps of the hall, towards the second floor, photojournalists took the images that went around all of Bolivia, that November 12, 2019. In the photos, she is surrounded by her two sons and legislators, mostly from Demócratas, her then party.
In another image, on the balcony of the palace, Añez appears with civic and other opposition leaders. Today, after a year of being imprisoned, of those pictures only her most intimate circle remains: her two children.
Something similar happened with respect to the international community, which at the time recognized her, favored pacification and endorsed the extension of her mandate.
"Many people were attached to her, they surely insinuated to her, to be appointed with some state responsibility, but later they do not appear. They benefited from the position and disappeared in time", expressed to Página Siete Arnaldo Añez, brother of the former president.
The relative adds: "I condemn the actions of those politicians who took advantage of Jeanine's momentary and transitory power to occupy a political position, which suddenly corresponded to her because of her personal wisdom, but later has been returned with selfishness, with hypocrisy, with lack of courage".
On March 13, 2021, Añez was arrested in Trinidad (Beni), then she was transferred to La Paz, where she is being held in preventive detention. She is being prosecuted, through ordinary proceedings, for the "coup" case.
From the ALP to the Palace
On the night of November 12, 2019, Añez assumed the Presidency after Evo Morales resigned and left the country, and the MAS authorities, who were part of the chain of succession, also resigned.
María Calcina, then deputy for Unidad Nacional (UN), commented to this newspaper that after the proclamation, the legislators who were in the ALP were invited to accompany the column that, led by Añez, would go to the Government Palace.
When they crossed the Murillo square, Calcina noticed that a large number of people had gathered there, but he could not hear what they were saying to Añez on the way, because those around him were, among others, senators from Demócratas, besides Arturo Murillo, who had arrived to the Upper House with UN, but who ended up with that force.
"Next to her were the senators of that time. There was Óscar Ortiz, there was Arturo Murillo, there were several senators at that time, who later we have already seen as ministers, as members of Mrs. Añez's cabinet", he commented.
At the end of February, Rubén Costas, leader of Demócratas, in a contact with the press, asked if there was a possibility that he would visit Añez in jail, answered: "There is no such possibility, because we are with a lot of work here and (in) permanent trials".
The executive secretary of UN, Roberto Moscoso, told this newspaper that UN had no participation whatsoever in this government. "We did not even put a doorman. Its management was mainly from the senators of Demócratas."
Fernando Camacho, who in 2019 was president of the Pro Santa Cruz Committee and one of the leaders of the mobilization, occasionally posts on his networks some messages about Añez, which is striking given that the first cabinet of the former president included figures close to him, such as Fernando López (Defense) or Jerjes Justiniano (Presidency).
After Añez took office, countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom and Brazil, among others, recognized her, while the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, sent Jean Arnault, who arrived four days after the inauguration and joined the dialogue initiatives promoted by the Church and the European Union.
When the Plurinational Constitutional Tribunal (TCP) endorsed the extension of the mandate, Arnault declared: "The Personal Envoy of the Secretary General applauds the ruling issued today by the TCP regarding the extension of the mandate of the Executive and Legislative bodies and of the subnational authorities".
However, former Foreign Minister Karen Longaric noted that today the UN is silent on the indictment against Añez for the alleged coup case. "I do not understand why the silence of the United Nations, particularly of Mr. Guterres, and of its high commissioners and representatives; why the silence before this apocryphal accusation of coup d'état made against former President Añez and some of her collaborators", said Longaric in a recent interview with this media.
Political analyst Gregorio Lanza considers that politics is hard, and does not respond to friendships or loyalties, especially nowadays when there are no values, but rather interests. In this context, he indicated that those who once accompanied Añez, today are "totally distanced and turning their backs on him".
"Those who, in some other way, medidated during her government and who accompanied her and made the comparsa around the lady, have disappeared," he said.
Romano Paz, political analyst, considers that the transition government does enjoy legitimacy from the international community, but that internally the rhetoric of the coup is being imposed.
"The transition enjoys legitimacy from the international community; what happens is that at the domestic level there is a sort of vendetta by MAS and in this case the narrative of the winning side is being imposed, which is the so-called 'coup d'état'. This position assumed by MAS is regrettable, not of truce or pacification, but of confrontation", he said.
Lanza reflects on three points: 1) Añez took office in a complex succession, of which one can speak of a constitutional succession forced by circumstances, with a mandate that she did not fulfill: to hold elections, which implies a violation related to ethics and deserves a political trial; 2) She could also be tried as former president, but at liberty, for the excessive use of force in her government. However, the Executive engaged in a witch hunt and in this context she is a victim of a patriarchal, macho vision, which basically denotes revenge; and 3) In one year in prison, Añez went from being subjugated in her freedom (she had the courage to stay in the country), to having a more solid attitude, in a phase in which she begins to defend her rights and to assume another profile.
Añez's brother: "Many legal excesses have been committed".
Arnaldo Añez, brother of former President Jeanine Añez, considers that many legal excesses have been committed in the ordinary proceeding against her.
"As family I consider that many legal excesses have been committed, excesses also to the due process. She was not previously notified with fiscal resolutions, summons, which have a whole legal protocol foreseen. She was simply taken prisoner, as if it were a flagrant crime in the late hours of the night," the family member told Página Siete.
The former president was arrested on March 13, 2021 in Trinidad. She was later transferred to La Paz, where she is being held in preventive detention.
Arnaldo indicated that the year that Jeanine has been imprisoned was "traumatic" for her and for the whole family.
"She is in prison because she complied with a legal mandate. The leadership of the State should never be in a vacuum. As there were no executive authorities of the State, she, as second secretary of the Chamber of Senators, complied with a constitutional attribution. She dared to take that constitutional attribution and give it what the country needed at that time", he assured.
He added that they consider that Añez is being subject to kidnapping rather than being detained. "More than a legal detention, we consider that our sister is being subjected to a kidnapping by the Executive Power, a kidnapping that remains in force. We do not know when it will end", he asserted.
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