Santa Cruz threatens the recall process of the president of Bolivia

Thousands of opponents from the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz demanded that the leftist president Luis Arce amnesty Governor Luis Fernando Camacho and other political prisoners and, if he does not do so, they will promote the revocation of his mandate.

The opponents met in a town hall in a square in the city of Santa Cruz, the most populous in the country, to approve proposals suggested by the regional Civic Committee, an influential civil-business conglomerate.

The president of the Civic Committee, Rómulo Calvo, read several proposals for citizens to respond affirmatively or negatively.

One of them was whether Santa Cruz agrees to require Arce to "instruct and make possible the approval of an amnesty law, so that within a period of no more than 30 days, determine the release of Governor Luis Fernando Camacho and all the prisoners politicians of the country".

The government of the leftist Arce, in power since November 2020 and political dolphin of former President Evo Morales, did not issue any comments.

Camacho was imprisoned at the end of last December for a preventive period of four months, accused by the Prosecutor's Office and the ruling party of being the ringleader of a so-called "coup" against Morales at the end of 2019.

The opposition also denounces that since Arce's inauguration some 180 people, including civilians, police and military, have been detained.