“Through the Administration of Penitentiary Regime, we will carry out all the operations and actions necessary to ensure that this hearing takes place,” the Vice Minister of Citizen Security, Roberto Ríos, said.

In Coup I, those implicated in the constitutional rupture in November 2019 are prosecuted, such are the cases of former de facto president Jeanine Áñez (2019-2020), former head of Santa Cruz, Luis Fernando Camacho, former head of the civic committee of Potosí, Marco Pumari, as well as senior military and police commanders

The Public Prosecutor’s Office opened this criminal case for the commission of the crimes of terrorism, sedition and conspiracy at the request of an indictment filed by Lidia Patty, a former member of the Movement for Socialism.

After assuming the presidency of the country illegally following the resignation of President Evo Morales on November 10, 2019, Áñez signed Supreme Decree 4078 (known as de la Muerte) four days later, which exempted military and police officers from criminal responsibilities for the violence applied in the repression against those who demanded the restoration of constitutional order.

The consequences of that violence ended in the Senkata massacres in the cities of El Alto; El Pedregal, in La Paz, and Sacaba, in the department of Cochabamba, with nearly 40 deaths and hundreds wounded by firearms, as well as thousands imprisoned and tortured.

As a result of these acts, the former de facto ruler is charged with genocide, homicide and grievous and minor bodily harm, as provided for and punished by articles 138, 251 and 271 of the Bolivian Penal Code, with a maximum penalty of 30 years.

According to documents from the Public Prosecutor’s Office, there is sufficient evidence that Camacho is the perpetrator of the offences of “terrorist financing, active bribery, persuasion of troops, public incitement to commit a crime and criminal conspiracy, as defined and punished in articles 133 bis, 158, 127, 130 and 132 of the Criminal Code”.

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