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MIRIAM AMANCAY COLQUE reports on the continuing destabilisation of the country by rightwing politicians
DEMANDING JUSTICE: Demonstrators shout slogans against the jailed opposition leader and governor of Santa Cruz region, Luis Fernando Camacho, during a protest in La Paz, Bolivia onTuesday

BOLIVIA is living through continuous threats of violence and destabilisation by the far-right minority based in the eastern province of Santa Cruz, which intends to break the constitutional order, and argues that they are fighting a communist dictatorship.

On November 30 2020, the former MP Lidia Patty filed a complaint to the Prosecutor’s Office against the coup plotter Luis Fernando Camacho, his father Jose Luis Camacho, former comanding officer of the armed forces General Williams Kaliman, former commanding officer of the police and others, for crimes of terrorism, conspiracy and sedition committed in the coup 2019, which resulted in the resignation of the then president of the Plurinational State of Bolivia Evo Morales.

This case is known as “Coup d’etat 1” and lists all the illegal measures taken by Luis Fernando Camacho and his accomplices.

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