“Bolivia’s former acting president Jeanine Anez was arrested Saturday on terrorism and sedition charges over what her predecessor and political rival Evo Morales denounced as a ‘coup’ that unseated him. Police were also rounding up former ministers who backed the conservative politician’s caretaker government, which was in place for a year after Morales fled the country in November 2019 amid disputed elections, media reports said.”
“The arrests came months after Morales returned to Bolivia from exile on the back of a fresh election victory in October 2020 for the leftist Movement for Socialism (MAS) party he founded. The presidency and congress are now under the control of MAS. ‘I inform the Bolivian people that Mrs. Jeanine Anez has already been apprehended and is currently in the hands of the police,’ government minister Carlos Eduardo del Castillo wrote on Twitter. Castillo congratulated the police for their ‘great work’ in the ‘historic task of giving justice’ to the Bolivian people” – AFP.