Bolivia's self-proclaimed president, Jeanine Anez, tied to cocaine trafficking
Self-proclaimed President of Bolivia Jeanine Áñez, who took office two days after a violent coup forced President Evo Morales to resign, has been reported to have close family ties with at least one major drug trafficker.
Áñez's nephew, Carlos Andrés Añez, was arrested on October 16, 2017, with Calí Cartel associate Fabio Andrade Lima Lobo in the neighboring Brazilian state of Mato Grosso.
According to the police report they were in possession of no less than 480 kilos (1,058 lbs.) of pure cocaine - its street value estimated at over $60 million.
"The subject who has been apprehended infraganti with 480 kilos of drugs in Brazil is Mr. Carlos Andrés Añez Dorado, who is the nephew of Jeanine Añez Chávez, senator for the Democratic Unity party," Bolivian Interior Minister Carlos Romero confirmed at that time.
"So, in this case, we are talking about a family bond with a person in politics.”
Romero, like many Morales officials and lawmakers from Morales' left-wing MAS, was forced to seek refuge, and has been in the Argentine Embassy since the coup last Sunday.
Argentine President-elect Alberto Fernández, who helped negotiate President Morales' exit from Bolivia to Mexico on November 12, has called on outgoing President Mauricio Macri to extend political asylum to Romero or any other officials or lawmakers currently under threat.
At least 21 Bolivians have been killed since the coup amid massive demonstrations.
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Bolivia's self-proclaimed president, Jeanine Áñez, new nephew, Carlos Áñez, and the latter's partner, Calí Cartel associate Fabio Andrade, with part of the 480 kg of pure cocaine seized by Brazilian authorities in 2017.
Áñez - who became Bolivia's president over at least two others in the order of succession and without senate quorum - has been compared to the U.S. installation of Guillermo Endara as President of Panama in 1989.
Endara had served as director of a bank targeted by the FBI and DEA as a major laundering front for the Calí and Medellín cartels.
Like Áñez, Endara's partner had been arrested (in Georgia) for attempting to traffic half a ton of pure cocaine.
