Trial for the 2019 coup d'etat differs in Bolivia

Published at: 15/10/2024 10:29 PM

The oral trial in the “Coup d'Etat I” case was suspended because the defendants were not transferred to the court of La Paz, the Bolivian capital, the HispanTV portal reported. Amid protests from some social sectors demanding justice, for the victims of the 2019 Senkata and Sacaba massacres, it became known that the face-to-face oral trial has been suspended until October 17.

Because the former de facto president Jeanine Añez, the former governor of Santa Cruz, Luis Fernando Camacho and the former Potosino civic Marco Antonio Pumari, could not be transferred from prison for the hearing of the beginning of the oral and face-to-face trial on the “Golpe I” case, this legal process was deferred.

This trial has to do with the events that led to the self-proclamation of Añez as president on November 12, 2019, after the coup against Evo Morales, which caused more than 37 Bolivians to be murdered.

The “coup I” case was initiated by former deputy Lidia Patty in 2020, the date from which the Bolivian Public Prosecutor's Office had to wait four years to file the formal accusation against the defendants.

It is the matrix of the 2019 Coup d'Etat, in this process it has to define responsibility, for the organization and gestation of the Coup.

Outside the First Anti-Corruption Court, representatives of the Justice Promotion Committee (ICJ) protested calling for 30-year imprisonment for the main defendants of the 2019 Senkata and Sacaba massacres.

Mazo News Team