LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia’s former interim president Jeanine Áñez left prison Thursday following a Supreme Court of Justice decision that annulled her 10-year sentence.

“It’s like coming back to life,” Áñez said as she left the Miraflores women’s prison in downtown La Paz. She smiled and waved a Bolivian flag as supporters celebrated and shouted, “Yes, we could.”

“I gave my country everything I had to give. It has been very painful… they treated me like a real criminal,” she added, her voice breaking.

Áñez had been imprisoned for more than four years. She was arrested in March 2021, and in convicted in June 2022, for her role in assuming the presidency in a controversial National Assembly session following the deadly 2019 protests that led to the resignation of then-president Evo M

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