The Prosecutor’s Office accuses the governor of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, of the crime of terrorism and requested six months of preventive detention for the events recorded during the 2019 crisis that led to the resignation of Evo Morales from the Presidency, who later denounced being the victim of a “coup d’état”, amid allegations of electoral fraud in his favor in the failed elections of that year.
The 24-hour strike called by the “Assembly of the Cruceñidad” in Bolivia, specifically Santa Cruz, to demand the release of the governor and opposition leader, Luis Fernando Camacho, It started this Friday at zero hours.
“Santa Cruz repudiates the kidnapping and political persecution against authorities and the civilian population,” was the message with which the Santa Cruz Civic Committee began the strike.
At the time the strike began in Santa Cruz, Camacho was placed in preventive detention for four months. The foregoing, in a hearing on precautionary measures that lasted more than nine hours.
The vice president of the Civic Committee for Santa Cruz, Fernando Larach, who led the start of the march, said they were on “alert.”
After this, he added that “new scenarios will be analyzed” if justice does not release Governor Camacho.
Larach asked to avoid “acts of violence” and to be “very careful to protect State institutions” against possible “self-attacks to be able to blame the Santa Cruz leadership.”
Arrest of the governor of Santa Cruz in Bolivia
The governor of Santa Cruz, who was arrested last Wednesday, said during the hearing that he “will never give up” and that he will continue to “fight” against what he considers to have been an “abuse” of the ruler. movement to socialism (BUT).
“I am never going to give up, we have been fighting against the abuse of massism. This is a fight for democracy and freedom, it is a fight for Bolivia,” he declared.
The judicial act, which took place virtually, began at 6:00 p.m. local time with the presence of representatives of the Ministry of the Interior.
To this was added the State Attorney General’s Office (PGE), the members of the accusing party, Camacho and their lawyers.
The Santa Cruz leaders considered that the governor’s detention was an “abusive, illegal and arbitrary transgression, socially unacceptable and morally reprehensible.”
They also maintained that in 2019 “there was no coup d’état”, but that then-President Evo Morales “resigned and fled” from the country.
This, given the “obvious electoral fraud” in the unsuccessful elections of that year, “for which reason any judicial process initiated by this flagrant lie is totally arbitrary, totalitarian and unconstitutional.”
Since last Wednesday Camacho has been in a cell of the Special Force to Fight Crime (FELCC) in La Paz, where he was transferred after his arrest in the city of Santa Cruz in a questionable police operation.
It is expected that in the next few hours he will be taken to the maximum security prison of Chonchocoro, in the department of La Paz, about 35 kilometers from the city of the same name.