A total of twenty-five former Heads of State and Government of spain y Latin America denounced this Friday the “irregular” and “arbitrary” detention of the Bolivian governor of Santa Cruz and opposition leader, Luis Fernando Camacho“under orders” of the government of the president Luis Arce.
And interim judge ordered this morning the preventive detention of Camacho for four months under the “coup d’état I” process, for the events that occurred during the 2019 crisis, and then the opponent He was transferred to the maximum security prison in Thereforein the highlands of Peace (Bolivia), about 35 kilometers from the city of the same name.
In a statement, former presidents participating in the Democratic Initiative of Spain and the Americas (IDEA) placed this action by the Bolivian government “in the framework of the political persecutions that it (Luis Arce) initiated after the departure of power from Evo Moraleshis co-religionist.”
IDEA repudiated the arrest of Camacho carried out by a “police group that obstructed” the passage of the car in which the governor was traveling, “he broke the window and reduced the security group” of the opposition with tear gas.
His arrest and transfer took place “without regular judicial action,” stressed the signatories of the declaration, who urged the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to “carry out the urgent steps” required by the “arbitrary detention” of Camacho.
“We express our condemnation of the widespread practice of preventive detention and prosecution of political opponents,” as in the case of the governor of Santa Cruz, they highlighted.
The former heads of State and Government emphasized that the prosecutors of the Santa Cruz jurisdiction “had refused to be part of the political persecution” against Camacho.
La Paz Prosecutor’s Office justified the arrest of Luis Camacho
The Peace Prosecutor’s Office justified the arrest of regional representative arguing that the governor did not obey a summons made to testify in the spurious trial that is being followed against him and former president Jeanine Añez for terrorism in an alleged coup in 2019.
IDEA recalled that the crisis that Bolivia experienced was resolved by “the path of constitutional succession due to the resignation” of then President Evo Morales, “after an electoral fraud proven by the OAS audit” with the support of the European Union (EU). ).
For its part, the Bolivian Episcopal Conference today described the detention of the governor of Santa Cruz as a “kidnapping with unheard of violence and viciousness,” as it took place, it said, during the “hard times” of the dictatorships.
The declaration is signed by Carlos Mesa and Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga, from Bolivia; Óscar Arias, Rafael Ángel Calderón and Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, from Costa Rica; José María Aznar (Spain); Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderón (Mexico); Mireya Moscoso, Ernesto Pérez Valladares and Nicolás Ardito Barletta (Panama).
Also signed are Alfredo Cristiani, of El Salvador; Mauricio Macri, of Argentina; Sebastian Pinera, of Chile; Luis Alberto Lacalle and Julio Maria Sanguinetti, of Uruguay; Lucio Gutierrez, Osvaldo Hurtado, Jamil Mahuad and Lenin Moreno, from Ecuador; Ivan Duque, Andres Pastrana and Alvaro Uribe, from Colombia, and Juan Carlos Wasmosy and Federico Franco, from Paraguay.
(With information from EFE)