“It is an electoral council because it defines a clear political agenda,” analyst Hugo Siles said in statements to journalistic media.
Siles pointed out that those summoned by Santa Cruz power groups directly alluded to the exhortation that all opposition political parties build a single project against the majority movement towards socialism – Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples – in view of the 2025 national elections.
He felt it was impossible for those accused of the 2019 events to be released at the request of a council because they face charges.
Among these, he mentioned constitutional violations and massacres in the case of former de facto President Jeanine Áñez, as well as crimes such as the seduction of troops related to Santa Cruz Governor Luis Fernando Camacho.
Regarding the warning that if Camacho is not released within 30 days, a repeal of President Arce’s mandate would be encouraged, Siles pointed out that it is a fantasy.
“It doesn’t take council to define a call for recall – the analyst clarified – it’s in the Constitution, it’s in the statutes.”
The demands of the so-called National Council were not strong and their demands were dispersed, although a common factor was the coincidence of demanding impunity for those responsible for the breach of constitutional order and the Sacaba and Senkata massacres in 2019.
Santa Cruz gathered a significant number of people, albeit much fewer than those who concentrated on November 13, 2022, in the epilogue of the mobilization for the “Yes or Yes 2023 Census”, causing anger among participants because the Committee Pro Santa Cruz accepted the government’s proposal to conduct this national survey in 2024.
In La Paz, however, the mobilization originally scheduled for 4:00 p.m. local time began at 5:30 p.m. with a small group concentrated in the Calle 21 plaza in Calacoto in the southern zone.
Then, in a block no longer than 50 meters, according to Prensa Latina, the participants moved to the coast road and finally marched to 8th Street in this southern area.
Even amid calls for freedom, democracy and amnesty for the putschists, now known as political prisoners, the public forum in Cochabamba lasted an hour to begin while waiting for a larger number of participants.
The Bolivian television channel showed aerial photos of the mobilizations in the departments of Potosí, Tarija, Pando and Beni, which revealed the low turnout.
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