Former Latin American presidents have rejected the “arbitrary” detention of Bolivian Governor Luis Camacho.

A total of twenty-five former heads of state or government Spain D Latin America condemned this Friday the “illegal” and “arbitrary” detention of the Bolivian governor of Santa Cruz and an opposition leader, Luis Fernando Camacho”by order” of the government of President Luis Arce.

AND interim judge ordered preventive detention this morning Camacho for four months as part of the “coup d’état I” process, for the events that occurred during the 2019 crisis, and then enemy He was transferred to a maximum security prison in chonchokoroin the mountains World (Bolivia), about 35 kilometers from the city of the same name.

In a statement by former presidents participating in Democratic Initiative of Spain and America (IDEA) They placed this action of the Bolivian government “in the framework of the political persecution that it (Luis Arce) initiated after the departure of his fellow believer Evo Morales from power.”

IDEA refused arrest Camacho carried out by a “police group obstructing” the passage automobile in which the governor was riding, “he broke a window and reduced the security team” of the opposition with tear gas.

His arrest and transfer took place “without regular judicial action,” the signatories of the declaration stressed, who called on the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to “implement the urgent measures” required by Camacho’s “arbitrary detention.”

“We condemn the widespread practice of preventive detention and prosecution of political opponents,” as in the case of the governor of Santa Cruz, they stressed.

Former heads of state and government stressed that Santa Cruz County prosecutors “refused to engage in political persecution” of Camacho.

La Paz prosecutor justifies arrest of Luis Camacho

world prosecutor’s office justified the arrest regional represantative alleging that the governor disobeyed a summons to testify in a bogus trial being waged against him and former President Jeanine Agnes for terrorism in an alleged 2019 coup.

IDEA recalled that the crisis experienced by Bolivia was resolved “through constitutional succession due to the resignation” of then President Evo Morales “following electoral fraud confirmed by an OAS audit” with the support of the European Union (EU). ).

For its part, the Bolivian Episcopal Conference today described the detention of the governor of Santa Cruz as a “kidnapping with unheard-of violence and brutality” as it took place during what it called the “hard times” of dictatorships.

The declaration was signed by Carlos Mesa and Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga of Bolivia; Oscar Arias, Rafael Angel Calderon and Miguel Angel Rodriguez from Costa Rica; Jose Maria Aznar (Spain); Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderon (Mexico); Mireya Moscoso, Ernesto Perez Valladares and Nicolas Ardito Barletta (Panama).

Also signed Alfredo Cristiani from El Salvador; Mauricio Macri from Argentina; Sebastian Piñera from Chile; Luis Alberto Lacalle and Julio Maria Sanguinetti from Uruguay; Lucio Gutierrez, Osvaldo Hurtado, Jamil Mahuad and Lenin Moreno from Ecuador; Ivan Duque, Andrés Pastrana and Alvaro Uribe from Colombia and Juan Carlos Vasmosi and Federico Franco from Paraguay.

(As reported by EFE)