Bolivia: civic leader of Santa Cruz announces “peaceful” fight for the release of opponent Luis Fernando Camacho

The civic leader of Santa Cruz, the largest Bolivian region, Rómulo Calvo, announced a “peaceful” fight for the release of the governor of that department, the opposition Luis Fernando Camachoarrested and transferred to La Paz this Wednesday in a process due to the 2019 crisis.

In a statement to the media, Calvo demanded the Bolivian president, Luis Arce, “the immediate release” of Camacho to “avoid the unnecessary confrontation that your government intends to install” in Santa Cruz.

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“Evil has no place in this department. This department is a people of faith and this fight is also peaceful”, affirmed the president of the Pro Santa Cruz Committee.

Calvo maintained that Arce “has played with fire” and warned that the crossroads They will not “give up in this fight” and that they will be “firm until the last consequences until they release our governor.”

For Calvo, what happened is a “flagrant violation of constitutional and democratic human rights” And it is not only against the governor of Santa Cruz, but against the entire region.

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He also announced that this Thursday the “Assembly of La Cruceñidad” will meet to mark “the line of immediate actions” that will be taken in rejection of the arrest of camacho.

The civic leader considered that “all Santa Cruz and Bolivians” who think “differently” from the ruling party and who want “a free and democratic country” run “the risk” of being arrested and prosecuted as camacho.

“We are living a dictatorship, what is being done now and what has been done, the way it has been done is a dictatorship, it is a criminal act,” denounced.

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Calvo accused the Government of Arce of “generating confrontation and chaos to militarize” Santa Cruz“even mobilizing paid people to carry out all these acts of vandalism that have already begun to happen”, alluding to fires registered at the doors of the regional Prosecutor’s Office and in the house of a minister.

the leader asked not to “fall into provocation or violence” and that the mobilizations be framed in respect for democracy and the “rule of law”.

The governor of the Bolivian region of Santa Cruz, the opposition member Luis Fernando Camacho (c), enters the offices of the Special Force to Fight Crime in La Paz, Bolivia, along with plainclothes police officers. (EFE/Javier Mamaní).

THE DETENTION

Camacho was arrested in Santa Cruz after noon while he was going to his home, when he was violently intercepted by armed police officers in civilian clothes, according to his relatives.

His whereabouts were unknown for several hours. and for what reason he was apprehended, for which reason the Governor of Santa Cruz and several opposition leaders denounced that the governor of Santa Cruz was “kidnapped.”

towards the end of the afternoon The Prosecutor’s Office confirmed that he was arrested for the case “coup d’état I” in compliance with an arrest warrant issued last October by a judge in La Paz.

Then it was learned that the opponent was transferred to La Paz in a helicopter and finally came when it was getting dark at Special Force to Fight Crime (Felcc) Paceña under heavy police custody.

The “coup d’état I” case is a denunciation of terrorism due to the 2019 crisis after the failed general elections of that year, which were reported as fraudulent and which led to the resignation of then-President Evo Morales, who denounced being the victim of a “coup d’état”.

Although camacho was the main defendant in that case opened two years ago, it was not until this day that the Police carried out the arrest and his transfer to La Paz, where former interim president Jeanine Áñez and two of her associates have been detained since March 2021 for the same process. former ministers

Source: Elcomercio