Bolivia’s ex-president who oversaw bloody crackdown on protesters freed from prison

Release follows supreme court ruling that overturned Jeanine Áñez’s conviction for allegedly staging coup to seize powerThe former interim president who oversaw a bloody crackdown on protesters in Bolivia has been freed from prison after almost five years, following a supreme court ruling that overturned her conviction for allegedly staging a coup to seize power.Jeanine Áñez, 58, left the Miraflores Women’s Orientation Centre in La Paz on Thursday, saying that “the monster had to go” for her to walk free – a reference to the end of nearly two decades of rule by the leftwing Movimiento al Socialismo (Mas) party. Continue reading...