Standing behind bars, Bolivia's former interim President Jeanine Anez speaks to an unidentified woman at a police station jailhouse, in La Paz, Bolivia, March 13, 2021
FORMER Bolivian interim president Jeanine Anez started a hunger strike today hours before the opening of her trial on charges of genocide.
The hearing was due to open after the Morning Star went to print, but Ms Anez actions were seen as a last-ditch bid to delay justice.
She is charged with the deaths of 20 indigenous Bolivians in the Sacaba and Senkata massacres which followed the ousting of former president Evo Morales in a Washington-backed fascist coup.
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