Carolina Ribera Áñez She is the daughter of the former president of Bolivia Jeanine Áñeztoday illegally imprisoned by the regime of Luis Arce.
Why are you in our country?
I am going to participate in the Madrid forum, which aims to counteract the information disseminated by the Sao Paulo forum and the Puebla Group, made up of regimes that threaten democracy and the rights of all people. Here it is not about left or right ideologies, but about the political interests behind it. We want respect for human rights and for our neighbor.
Why counter?
21st century socialism has done a lot of damage to the people and is advancing dangerously. As a consequence of this, in Bolivia there are more than 200 political prisoners, including my mother Jeanine Áñez, authorities, politicians, military, police, young university students. In Bolivia there is no justice, there is no rule of law, there is no independence of powers.
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How are laws broken in Bolivia?
Let’s start with Evo Morales, an abusive man who in 14 years worked to change the rules; he changed the Constitution, he went against a referendum that he did not want to take place, because he consulted the people if he wanted Evo Morales to be re-elected as president. Proof of this, in 2019 he committed electoral fraud. Bolivians came out to defend his vote for 21 days. Evo Morales resigned, and with him the entire succession until he came to my mother as second Vice President of State; Jeanine Anez. My mother assumed the presidency by constitutional succession. At that time, more than 50 deaths were recorded in protests. When my mother became president, she pacified the country.
What happened after that?
Once in power, my mother called for new elections, the MAS wins, Luis Arce takes office and he orders his arrest. Arce points out that my mother committed a coup, that she was a de facto president. She was in power for 11 months and a few days and governed with all the institutions: the Constitutional Court, the electoral body, the Legislative Assembly; 78 laws were made; 55 for my mother and the rest for the Senate. Luis Arce forgets that both he and the congressmen and departmental authorities are the result of the call for elections by Jeanine Áñez. They have everyone who thinks differently in jail. Even me, they have opened an investigation just for defending my mother’s rights.
Have they gone to international organizations?
The IACHR is in Bolivia. When Pedro Castillo was imprisoned for having committed the coup, because he did commit it, it didn’t take them 48 hours to visit them and talk to his family. But when it comes to a woman like Jeanine Áñez, the only thing she did was do her duty, they only became present after two years. There is total discrimination.
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