These MEPs called on Borrel to make an appeal to the EU institutions to respect the rule of law in Bolivia and the acts of vandalism by supporters of Santa Cruz Governor Luis Fernando Camacho since his arrest on 28 the investigation into the coup case I for the crime of “terrorism”.
As part of this case emerged the conspiracy of a group of political actors to investigate Jeanine Áñez’s unconstitutional access to the presidency, the establishment of a de facto government (2019-2020) and the massacres that later arose in the repression against those who claimed the restoration of democracy.
According to Camacho’s confessions in a video broadcast on national television, through his father, José Luis, he “coupled” support for the overthrow of constitutional President Evo Morales with police and military commanders amid the unrest that led to the de facto regime.
“Mr. Luis Fernando Camacho, in addition to the Coup d’Etat I case, has opened other cases from the Bolivian judiciary for promoting acts of violence – the last one in November – which unfortunately have led to deaths, confrontations and the collapse of constitutional legitimacy in 2019,” reads in the letter signed by nine MEPs.
They also reminded Borrel that Camacho’s arrest came after the former citizen leader repeatedly failed to appear on the case under investigation.
The text denounces the repeated attempts in the highland state to delegitimize the rule of law, democracy and the judiciary.
MPs warned that shortly before Camacho’s arrest and preventive detention in the maximum security prison in Chonchocoro, La Paz department, they had been involved in “serious acts of violence” including threats, persecution and attacks on individuals and institutions.
The Bolivian government this Monday considered the statements made by MPs Víctor González from Spain and Luis Fernando Sánchez from Chile on the internal situation in the country, in which they reprimanded the head of the police department, as an “act of unacceptable interference”.
None of them represent his government, said Deputy Foreign Trade Minister Benjamín Blanco, whose post is dependent on the State Department, after criticizing the statements published in Santa Cruz newspapers as “a clear act of unacceptable interference in Santa Cruz’s internal affairs.” “ be the country”.
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