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Civic Committees from across #Bolivia ratchet down protests demanding release of #SantaCruz governor #LuisFernandoCamacho, urge end to blockades in lowland department. They will convene cabildos in each departmental capital on January 25. #BOpol erbol.com.bo/nacional/c%C3%ADvicos-del-pa%C3%ADs-convocan-un-cabildo-nacional-el-25-de-enero-y-piden-levantar-los-bloqueos
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Civic Committees have classed Luis Fernando Camacho, arrested for alleged coordination with the military and police in the 2019 ouster of Evo Morales as a "political prisoner." @CarwilBJ/1608943101577687040
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Leading lists of "political prisoners" in Bolivia are a variegated set, including Jeanine Ánez who was convicted of unlawfully assuming the presidency, police mutineers, military officers charged w/ massacres, and politicians and bureaucrats charged w/ minor crimes.
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Aside from Áñez and Camacho, former Potosí civic committee leader Marco Pumari (Camacho's presidential running mate) is of highest concern to the Civic Committees. He is charged in the night-time arson of an electoral tribunal. @CarwilBJ/1588206644088999938
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Civic Committees are department-wide civil society organizations with a right-leaning history in most Bolivian departments. In 2006-09 and since 2020 they have served as the core of opposition to the MAS-IPSP-led national government.