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Four months of preventive detention are decreed against Luis Fernando Camacho, governor of Santa Cruz

Luis Fernando Camacho

( Spanish) — The Eighth Criminal Investigation Court of La Paz, Bolivia resolved this Friday to order four months of preventive detention against Luis Fernando Camacho, governor of Santa Cruz, for the crime of terrorism related to the “Coup d’état I” case.

The governor must complete his preventive detention in the Chonchocoro prison, located in the city of La Paz.

During the court session, Camacho said that it is a fight for democracy that he represents and called on the Bolivian people to prevent the current government of Bolivia from becoming a dictatorship like that of Venezuela and Cuba.

has tried to contact Luis Fernando Camacho’s legal team for a reaction but so far we have not received any response.

Luis Fernando Camacho, a key opposition figure and governor of the economic powerhouse of the Santa Cruz region, is escorted up a staircase as he arrives at the headquarters of the Special Forces to Fight Crime (FELCC) in La Paz, Bolivia , following his arrest on December 28, 2022. (Credit: LUIS GANDARILLAS/AFP via Getty Images)

Initially, the defense of the governor of Santa Cruz had filed an action for freedom, but this was denied by the judge, so the new hearing for precautionary measures was installed.

The Prosecutor’s Office represented by prosecutor Omar Mejillones requested 6 months of preventive detention against Camacho, arguing that he had a high risk of leaving the country.

Mejillones also argued that Camacho represented a danger to hinder the investigations and therefore should remain in pretrial detention.

The “Coup d’état I” case refers to the political and social crisis that followed the 2019 elections, when a coup d’état was allegedly planned against the government of then-president Evo Morales.

Camacho’s legal team informed in the session that it will present an appeal which until now is unknown when it will be presented before the corresponding courts.

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