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Jeanine Anez stopped from boarding plane in bid to flee Bolivian justice
Jeanine Anez

BOLIVIA’S ex-president Jeanine Anez has been prevented from fleeing the country, activists in Beni department say.

A representative of social organisations in the region say that activists stopped Ms Anez boarding a plane at the Jorge Henrich Arauz airport in the city of Trinidad.

She faces charges relating to massacres at Senkata, Sacaba and Yapacani conducted by the military on orders of her government.

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