Bolivian opposition call a 24-hour strike to demand the freedom of Luis Fernando Camacho

The Pro Santa Cruz Civic Committee has called a 24-hour strike for this Friday as a way of demanding the “immediate” release of the governor of the Bolivian capital, Luis Fernando Camacho.

The president of the Committee, Rómulo Calvo, has resolved after a three-hour meeting to carry out a “departmental civic strike from 00:00 (local time) on Friday, December 30, demanding the immediate release of our governor,” as reported by the newspaper ‘Duty’.

Among the agreements, he has highlighted that the Committee “repudiates the violent kidnapping and subsequent apprehension against the governor and former civic president.”

“We state that the people of Santa Cruz will be mobilized and in permanent emergency, demanding his immediate release and his return to the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra,” he said.

Likewise, Calvo has denounced justice, urging the judiciary “to stop lending itself to political groping and to enforce the independence of powers, an essential condition of democratic institutions and the rule of law.”

Thirdly, he has asked “to denounce to the international community that the Bolivian government, chaired by Luis Arce, has established in Bolivia a regime of State terrorism and legal uncertainty.”

Camacho is the main leader of Santa Cruz, the richest region in Bolivia and historically in opposition to the governments of the Movement for Socialism (MAS), the scene in the last month of new protests and blockades, this time to oppose the census law of the Government of Luis Arce.

With information from La Gaceta de la Iberosfera

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