Bolivia: Government of Santa Cruz denounces that they also seek to “kidnap” civic leader Rómulo Calvo

The team of the governor of Santa Cruz, Luis Fernando Camachowho was arrested this Wednesday, warned through his social networks that they also want to “kidnap” the president of the Civic Committee of that region, Rómulo Calvo, and asked the population to hold a vigil at his home “in defense of Santa Cruz.” .

“The governor’s press team reports that the government also wants to kidnap the president of the Committee, Romulo Calvo. The people of Santa Cruz are invited to a vigil at their home”, points out part of the message that was published on the social networks of the opposition governor.

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Bald He was one of the leaders who promoted the 36-day strike between October and November of this year demanding that the population and housing census be carried out in 2023 and not 2024 as the Government of Luis Arce finally determined.

The Bolivian Police detained Camacho in Santa Cruz when he was going to his home in a police operation without specifying for which of the processes against him he was apprehended.

A video posted on social media shows that Camacho’s vehicle was intercepted by at least two motorists and they fired tear gas at it to force it to stop and then he is heard coughing while some men yell at him to get down on the ground amid insults.

The Minister of Government (Interior), Eduardo del Castillo, reported that theThe Police “complied with the arrest warrant” against the opposition governor.

Meanwhile, the Santa Cruz Governor’s Office issued a statement stating that Camacho has been “kidnapped in an absolutely irregular police operation and taken to an unknown destination.”

For his part, Martín Camacho, the governor’s lawyer, told the Unitel channel that the main thing at this time is to know the situation and whereabouts of the authority, since his detention has been an “unconstitutional action” and that it is an “illegal apprehension”, since there was no prior summons.

“For sure we don’t know if Luis Fernando He was removed from the vehicles or in the end he was removed from the airport in the same vehicles and at the moment we do not know his whereabouts completely “the lawyer pointed out.

The vice president of the Pro Santa Cruz Civic Committee, Fernando Larach, told the media that they are analyzing the measures that are going to be taken as a result of Camacho’s apprehension and that a new council is not ruled out.

Camacho gained notoriety in 2019 by leading the protests in Santa Cruz over allegations of alleged electoral fraud in favor of then-President Evo Morales in the failed general elections of that year.

The actual governor was denounced for the alleged blow against Morales in a process for which the former interim president is imprisoned Jeanine Anez.

In addition to this process, there are also numerous complaints against camacho for the 36-day strike carried out in Santa Cruz between October and November of this year to demand the prompt completion of the population census.

Source: Elcomercio

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