Do you know
the capital of Bolivia ? - no, it is not
La Paz! The picture of
this person would for sure makes heads turn ! – not only by her looks, by what
she was too – she was featured in the cover of Forbes magazine !
Perhaps tinseldom
and Politics are places where people rise meteorically, disproportionate to
their skills or efforts – and sometimes could fall from the sky too.
Before reading
further – one may remember reading about Bolivia and the revolution there in
1950s – during those days, the important leader of the MNR, Víctor Paz
Estenssoro, was president of Bolivia in 1952–56 and instituted the
revolutionary part of the party’s program. In 1956 he was replaced by the more
conservative Hernando (Hernán) Siles Zuazo, whose primary concern was to stop
inflation, which had completed the revolutionary process by virtually
destroying the older middle-class supporters of the MNR. Siles initiated an
economic program, with massive financial support from the United States, that
brought inflation under control; at the same time, he also suspended most of
the advanced social programs of the revolution. The government ended worker co-administration
of the nationalized mine companies and cut back on social services. It also
invited North American petroleum companies back into Bolivia for the first time
since 1937, when Standard Oil of Bolivia had been confiscated by the Toro
government.
Sucre is the
constitutional capital of Bolivia, the capital of the Chuquisaca Department and
the 6th most populated city in Bolivia. Located in the south-central part of
the country, Sucre lies at an elevation of 2,810 meters (9,214 feet). This
relatively high altitude gives the city a subtropical highland climate with
cool temperatures year-round. Its pre-Columbian name was Chuquisaca; during the
Spanish Empire it was called La Plata. Before the arrival of the Spanish, the
city of Chuquisaca had its own autonomy with respect to the Inca Empire. La Paz officially known as Nuestra Señora de La Paz (Our
Lady of Peace), and also Chuqi Yapu in Aymara, is the seat of government as
well as the legislative and executive capital of the Plurinational State of
Bolivia. La Paz is the third-most populous city in
Bolivia.
Bolivia, is located in western-central South America. The
seat of government and executive capital is La Paz, while the constitutional
capital is Sucre. The sovereign state of
Bolivia is a constitutionally unitary state, divided into nine departments. Its
geography varies from the peaks of the Andes in the West, to the Eastern
Lowlands, situated within the Amazon basin. It is bordered by Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile and Peru. It is one of the landlocked countries in the Americas.
It is all about
the rise and fall of - Jeanine Arez. Having
secured the presidency, Áñez, together with other opposition legislators and
civic leaders, including Camacho and Marco Pumari, made their way to the
Palacio Quemado, the president's former residence prior to the construction of
the Casa Grande del Pueblo in 2018. Greeting a crowd of supporters, Áñez
emerged onto the balcony dressed in the traditional presidential regalia,
including the sash and historic presidential medal. Flanked by her two children
on either side, as well as senators and civic leaders, she delivered a short
speech pledging to "restore democracy to the country": "I am
going to work this short time because Bolivians deserve to live in freedom,
they deserve to live in democracy, and never again will their vote be
stolen", she said. Notably, Áñez, a Catholic, also brandished a small pink
Bible, declaring that "God has allowed the Bible to enter the Palace
again". Before Morales' presidency, and until 2009, Bolivia was not a
secular state, and the former president's relationship with the Church was
controversial. At age fifty-two, Áñez was Bolivia's sixty-sixth president and
is the second woman to have ever held the post, after Lidia Gueiler, who
herself was a transitional president between 1979 and 1980.
It is not about
any governance but crime ! - a Bolivian court has sentenced former Bolivian
President Jeanine Arez to 10 years in prison for an alleged plot to topple her
rival Evo Morales in 2019.
Jeanine Áñez Chávez is a
Bolivian lawyer, politician, and television presenter who served as the 66th
president of Bolivia from 2019 to 2020. A former member of the Social
Democratic Movement, she previously served two terms as senator for Beni from
2015 to 2019 on behalf of the Democratic Unity coalition and from 2010 to 2014
on behalf of the National Convergence alliance. During this time, she served as
second vice president of the Senate from 2015 to 2016 and in 2019 and, briefly,
was president of the Senate, also in 2019. Born in San Joaquín, Beni, Áñez graduated as a
lawyer from the José Ballivián Autonomous University before working in the
field of television journalism.
In the midst
of this political crisis, and after the resignation of President Evo Morales
and other officials in the line of succession, Áñez declared herself next in
line to assume the presidency. On 12 November 2019, she installed an
extraordinary session of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly that lacked
quorum due to the absence of members of Morales's party, the Movement for
Socialism (MAS-IPSP), who demanded security guarantees before attending. In a
short session, Áñez declared herself president of the Senate, then used that
position as a basis to assume constitutional succession to the presidency of
the country. Her transitional government focused on pacifying the country,
calling for new elections, and, later, combating the COVID-19 pandemic.
Responding to domestic unrest, Áñez issued a decree removing criminal liability
for military and police in dealing with protesters, which was repealed amid
widespread condemnation following the Senkata and Sacaba massacres. Her
government launched numerous criminal investigations into former MAS officials,
for which it was accused of political persecution and retributive justice,
terminated Bolivia's close links with the socialist governments of Cuba,
Nicaragua, and Venezuela, and warmed relations with the United States.
Following the
end of her mandate in November 2020, Áñez briefly retired to her residence in
Trinidad, only to launch her Beni gubernatorial candidacy a month later.
Despite being initially competitive, mounting judicial processes surrounding
her time as president hampered her campaign, ultimately resulting in a
third-place finish at the polls. Eight days after the election, Áñez was
apprehended and placed in preventive detention on charges related to her role
in the alleged coup d'état carried out in 2019; a move decried as political
persecution by members of the opposition. Áñez's extended incarceration at the
Miraflores Women's Penitentiary caused a marked decline in her physical and
mental health, and was denounced as abusive by her family. On 10 June 2022,
after nearly fifteen months in pre-trial detention, the First Sentencing Court
of La Paz found Áñez guilty of breach of duties and resolutions contrary to the
Constitution, sentencing her to ten years in prison.
So now the
woman stands convicted of crimes
"contrary to the constitution and a dereliction of duties." and also sentenced to 10 years were former Chief of
General Staff Williams Kaliman and ex-police chief Yuri Calderon.
With
regards – S. Sampathkumar
16th
June 2022.
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