Bolivia workers demand sanctions against the coup ruler

“We have been waiting since 2019, this man has caused a lot of damage to Bolivians, after he violated the constitutional order (…)”, said the leader of the Chamber of Deputies, Marcelo Maita.

After learning of the arrest in Santa Cruz, on November 10, 2019, of the main promoter of the force measures that led to the resignation of Evo Morales, Bolivia’s first indigenous former president, on November 10, 2019, Maita confirmed that his organization had declared itself on permanent vigil. With a demand for justice.

“This man is part of the masterminds,” said the Labor leader, referring to the first coup case, “There must be justice for the massacres of Senkata and Scapa.”

The judicial investigation in this file covers the conspiratorial actions before Morales’ overthrow and the subsequent repression of those who refused to tear up the constitutional order, in which nearly 40 people were killed and hundreds injured.

In addition, Camacho himself revealed in a video broadcast on national television that he had negotiated through his father with the police and army chiefs of the time so that they would join the conspiracy against the Social Movement government – the political tool for the supremacy of cities.

Maita stressed that Camacho must also respond to the violent events that occurred during the last strike with a 36-day siege in Santa Cruz, marked by violence, racism, discrimination, burning of the headquarters of the farmers’ union, and looting. of the Provincial Workers’ Union.

These events resulted in four deaths and hundreds of injuries, a complaint of gang rape of a woman, various human rights violations, and economic losses amounting to $1.2 billion.

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