Last month in Bolivia, former president Jeanine Áñez was handed a guilty verdict for overthrowing the elected government in 2019, then led by Evo Morales’s Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party. She has been sentenced to ten years in prison, which is five years less than the prosecutors demanded. The court found that the coup d’état involved three violations of the senate’s rules, three violations of the Rules of the Chamber of Deputies, and nine violations of the Constitution of the Plurinational State.

Áñez has attempted to claim that the decision was politically motivated, but only the Right agrees with her. “Mrs. Áñez has made full use of due process in the lawsuit to the point of abusing it,” said constitutional lawyer Israel Quino,

and this puts her in a position where she cannot claim — not tomorrow, not the day afterward, and not in any international arena — that the court did not act with all due diligence, because she has exhausted every available judicial recourse to the point of engaging in dubious legal machinations.