Jeanine Áñez Chávez is a Bolivian politician and lawyer. She served as the 66th President of Bolivia on an interim basis from 2019 to 2020, following the resignation of President Evo Morales. She is Bolivia’s second female president after Lidia Gueiler Tejada.
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Jeanine Áñez Chávez is a Bolivian politician and lawyer. She served as the 66th President of Bolivia on an interim basis from 2019 to 2020, following the resignation of President Evo Morales. She is Bolivia’s second female president after Lidia Gueiler Tejada. She was previously an opposition senator from the northeastern department of Beni, belonging to the center-right Democrat Social Movement, which belongs to the Democratic Unity coalition of parties in Bolivia’s legislative assemblies. In 2010, she was elected to the Senate as a member of the party Plan Progress for Bolivia-National Convergence. She ran for governor ofBeni in 2012. In 2013, there was a series of nationwide strikes and protests against the MAS government about the reduction of seats in the Chamber of Deputies for Beni,. Potosí and Chuquisaca. In 2014, she made complaints about both the government’s lack of transparency and the state’ requests for state’ reports, in which they could audit the activities of the state. In 2011, she spoke out against the Morales government’s approval of a finance bill for the construction of the Villa Tunari-San Ignacio de Moxos highway. She claimed that it was not approved with due consideration for the native peoples and institutions of the region, saying, \”indigenous people’s rights were violated\”, a sentiment echoed by leader of the natives of the Isiboro Sécure National Park Indigenous Territory.
In 2012, she and fellow party legislator Adrián Oliva presented a report to the Human Rights Commission in Uruguay in an effort to publicise human rights violations in Bolivia. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said Bolivia had a “crisis in the administration of justice”; in 2013, she said there were around 600 Bolivians exiles or refugees, 100 political prisoners and at least 15 cases of torture at the time. She is a strong critic of former president Morales. In January to September 2020, she ran for president as part of the \”Juntos Avancemos\” alliance, a coalition of the Democrats Social Movement party and four other parties. She won the election with a majority of more than 50 per cent of the vote. She has been described as poor mestiza and lower-middle-class. She said that many cases of injunctions were ignored and there was “denial of information of the projects of the government” in which she was a witness. She also said that in many cases, these cases of injunction were ignored, and there were a number of cases of “denials of information” of the information she had asked for. In 2009, she wrote a book about her experiences in Bolivia, called “My Life in Bolivia: A Memoir of a Senator and a Lawyer” She is the daughter of a teacher and a social worker, and is the granddaughter of a former president and a former vice-mayor of Bolivia. She lives in the Amazonian town of San Joaquín.
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