“This council will fail,” assured Flavio Chacón, president of the La Paz Citizens’ Committee, in statements to state broadcaster Bolivia TV, which criticized the political nature of the non-binding public action planned for this afternoon in the eastern Bolivia capital. .
Chacón deplored that the Santa Cruz power elite intends to demand the release of that department’s governor, Luis Fernando Camacho, who was arrested and held as a precautionary measure in La Paz maximum-security prison in Chonchocoro for failing to respond to a summons to testify in the ongoing investigation followed in the case of the coup d’état I.
This file investigates Camacho for alleged terrorism crimes, active bribery and seduction of troops during the riots that led to the resignation of President Evo Morales on November 10, 2019 and the subsequent unconstitutional installation of the de facto government of Jeanine Áñez.
Chacón recalled that during the 36-day strike last October and November, on Camacho’s orders, the people of Santa Cruz also suffered from violations of their right to mobility and work, and even the violence used caused four deaths and a gang rape and burning of dozens of buildings and vehicles.
For her part, the coordinator of social organizations, Denis Velásquez, led a women’s protest against the council on Wednesday in Plaza Murillo, km zero of the government city.
“In Bolivia we will not allow another coup d’état,” he told the media.
Next to her was Lorgia Fuentes, who was detained and chained during the November 2019 coup and suffered various forms of torture along with other political prisoners.
Fuentes criticized that despite the allegations of these abuses, none of the masterminds or major perpetrators of the overthrow of Morales and the crimes committed during the de facto regime have been convicted under Coup I.
Leaders in the Plan Tres Mil area of Santa Cruz, meanwhile, have criticized the call for a national council by the department’s Citizens’ Committee and warned of a possible new wave of violence that could result from this mobilization.
Edgar Cáceres, leader of this neighborhood, which has been repeatedly attacked by paramilitary groups subordinate to civilian groups during the recent 36-day strike, expressed grave concern at the announcement by Pro-Santa Cruz Committee President Rómulo Calvo.
“Once again they want to lock us up,” Cáceres told the press.
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