Bolivian former right-wing president Jeanine Anez was released from prison on Thursday after more than four years behind bars, a day after the Supreme Court annulled her 10-year sentence for alleged coup plotting.
Anez, 58, was greeted by relatives and supporters as she emerged from a women's penitentiary in La Paz waving a Bolivian flag.
"I will never regret having served my country," she said through a loudspeaker at the prison gates.
Anez, a former senator, served as interim leader in 2019 after then-President Evo Morales fled the country following mass protests over alleged election fraud.
She famously brandished a large bible on taking office, declaring "Thank God, the bible has returned to the Bolivian government."
This was seen as a slight against Bolivia's Indigenous people, w

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