The Prosecutor’s Office of Bolivia offered expenses on Tuesday in opposition to the right-wing governor of Santa Cruz, Luis Fernando Camacho, and former President Jeanine Áñez for their alleged participation in a “coup” in opposition to former socialist President Evo Morales in 2019.
Omar Mejillones, the prosecutor main the “coup” case, is requesting a 20-year jail sentence for Camacho, Áñez, and 6 different males accused of plotting to “depose” Morales.
In actuality, Morales was not the goal of a coup however selected voluntarily to resign in late 2019 after the Organization of American States (OAS) discovered proof of fraud in his unconstitutional fourth electoral victory. Morales fled the nation to Mexico together with practically his total cupboard, leaving Áñez, then a senator, the highest particular person in the road of succession in the nation. She grew to become interim president for a 12 months earlier than fulfilling her constitutional obligation to set up elections as quickly as attainable. Bolivia is at the moment ruled by Morales’s Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) Party.
Bolivian interim President Jeanine Anez speaks through the ceremony in La Paz on November 25, 2019, in which Bolivian Salvador Romero Ballivian was sworn in as member of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), forward of recent elections on the Quemado Palace . She signed off on new elections Sunday in a key step in direction of ending weeks of unrest and turning the web page on Latin American leftist icon Evo Morales. (JORGE BERNAL/AFP by way of Getty)
Camacho, 45, is being accused alongside former Defense Minister Luis Fernando López, former navy chief Williams Kaliman, and former police chief Yuri Calderón of being the “authors” of the alleged plot.
Áñez stands accused of being an “accomplice” alongside activist Marco Antonio Pumari, former Armed Forces inspector Jorge Fernández, and navy chief Carlos Orellana.
“It has been possible to identify that his [Camacho’s] conduct fits the commission of the crimes of financing terrorism, active bribery, seduction of troops, public incitement to commit a crime, criminal association,” Mejillones said at a press convention.
The prosecutor claimed that there are “133 pieces of documentary evidence” and “131 testimonial evidence” items in the indictment, together with Camacho’s financial institution statements with which, Mejillones stated, he was ready to “prove” Camacho’s alleged position in shifting individuals to the capital metropolis of La Paz to protest in opposition to Morales in 2019.
Prosecutor Mejillones defined that the request can be forwarded to a legal decide who would take the required steps to open the method in opposition to all eight accused.
#BTVInforma | La Fiscalía pide entre 15 a 20 años de cárcel para los ocho acusados por el caso #GolpeDeEstado I. Añez y Camacho son imputados por el delito de terrorismo, que es sancionado con 20 años de cárcel, informa el fiscal Omar Mejillones
Periodista: María Ulo BTV – #LaPaz pic.twitter.com/WeXtEctdkl— Bolivia television Oficial (@Canal_BoliviaTV) December 26, 2023
Camacho’s lawyer, Martín Camacho, told the Argentine information outlet Infobae on Wednesday that the governor’s authorized group has not but been formally notified of the accusation and that they might wait for the official notification. Martín Camacho added that he advised native media on Tuesday he believes the federal government is merely searching for to “perpetuate the detention” of the governor.
Bolivia’s leftist authorities claims that Morales, a socialist strongman who dominated Bolivia between 2006 and 2019, was the sufferer of a “coup” in 2019. Camacho, a conservative governor and a longstanding critic of Bolivia’s socialist authorities, was arrested in December 2022 and accused of “terrorism” for allegedly having “staged a coup” by protesting Morales.
In actuality, Morales sought to cling to energy and proceed ruling Bolivia after three consecutive presidential phrases, first, by unsuccessfully making an attempt to amend the Bolivian structure by way of a referendum in 2016 to take away presidential time period limits after which by forcing the nation’s high court docket to situation a ruling in 2017 that allowed Morales to run a fourth time. The court docket claimed that presidential time period limits had been a “violation” of Morales’s human rights.
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales speaks throughout a press convention on the presidential palace in La Paz, Bolivia, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019. International election displays expressed concern over Bolivia’s presidential election course of Tuesday after an oddly delayed official fast depend confirmed President Morales close to an outright first-round victory — at the same time as a extra formal tally tended to present him heading for a dangerous runoff. (Juan Karita/AP)
Morales was “elected” president for a fourth time in October 2019 in a extremely fraudulent election. The Organization of American States (OAS) presented proof of huge voter fraud favoring Morales shortly after the nation’s electoral authorities declared him the winner. Morales subsequently resigned in November 2019, fleeing to Mexico alongside his cupboard of ministers.
Camacho traveled to La Paz on the time to personally ship a letter requesting Morales’ resignation amidst the proof of fraud and protests that had erupted. Camacho proclaimed that he would arrive in La Paz holding the “letter in my left hand and the Bible in my right hand,” having reportedly arrived to the Bolivian capital after Morales had already resigned.
Áñez, a conservative senator, was on the time the second vice-president of the Bolivian Chamber of Senators and the best rating member in the Bolivian presidential line of succession who was nonetheless in the nation. She was sworn in as president however selected not to be on the poll in the 2020 election, which resulted in MAS’s return to energy and the election of socialist Luis Arce as Bolivia’s present president. The Bolivian authorities would go on to arrest Áñez in 2022 and sentence her to ten years in jail for having assumed the presidency.
Christian Ok. Caruzo is a Venezuelan author and paperwork life underneath socialism. You can observe him on Twitter here.
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