The national head of Penitentiary Security, Rodolfo Machicado, confirmed in an interview with the state channel Bolivia Tv, that the decision was made not to transfer the defendants due to intelligence reports, which warned of vigils and mobilizations for and against the defendants.
In this context, Penitentiary Security decided not to transfer the governor of Santa Cruz, Luis Fernando Camacho; the civic leader of Potosí Marco Pumari and the former de facto ruler Jeanine Añez (2019-2020) to a court in La Paz.
According to Machicado, last weekend there were vigils in the surroundings of the Cantumarca prison in Potosí, where the accused Pumari is being held.
Likewise, demonstrations were expected in the maximum security prison in Chonchocoro, department of La Paz, where Camacho is being held, the main promoter of the coup d’état that forced the resignation of former president Evo Morales on November 10, 2019.
Likewise, demonstrations in one direction or another were expected in the Miraflores prison, where Áñez is being held, and in front of the court that is hosting the hearing in the La Paz center.
In Coup d’état I, these three defendants are being prosecuted, as well as senior military and police officers involved in the breakdown of constitutional order in 2019.
The prosecution opened this criminal case for the commission of crimes of terrorism, sedition and conspiracy at the request of an accusation presented by former deputy of the Movement for Socialism Lidia Patty.
After illegally assuming the presidency of the country following the resignation of former President Evo Morales, Áñez signed Supreme Decree 4078 (known as the Decree of Death) which exempted military and police from criminal liability for the violence used in the repression against those who demanded the restoration of constitutional order.
As a result, the massacres of Senkata, in the city of El Alto; El Pedregal, in La Paz, and Sacaba, in the department of Cochabamba, occurred, with a balance of about 40 dead and hundreds wounded by firearms, as well as thousands imprisoned and tortured.
Due to these events, those involved face charges of genocide, homicide and serious and minor injuries.
According to documents from the Prosecutor’s Office, “there are sufficient indications” that Camacho is the author of the crimes of “financing terrorism, active bribery, seduction of troops, public incitement to commit crimes and criminal association (…)”.
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