Luis Fernando Camacho

Luis Fernando Camacho
Camacho in 2019
President of the Santa Cruz Civic Committee
In office
2 February 2019 – 29 November 2019
Preceded byFernando Cuéllar Núñez
Succeeded byRómulo Calvo Bravo
Personal details
Born
Luis Fernando Camacho Vaca

(1979-02-15) February 15, 1979
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
Political partyMNR (2004–2020)
Other political
affiliations
Santa Cruz Youth Union

Luis Fernando Camacho Vaca (born 15 February 1979) is a Bolivian lawyer, businessman and activist.[1][2] He is a member of the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement in Bolivia.

He was a major critic of Evo Morales in the 2019 Bolivian general elections. He demanded that Morales resign on 5 November 2019.[3] He ran for President of Bolivia in 2020 but did not win.

In December 2022, A judge in Bolivia sent Camacho to be kept in prison four months before his trial on terrorism charges.[4] The charges are for his call for a national strike.

References

  1. ↑ Noticias, Éxito (2019-11-07). "Revelan que Camacho se transporta en vehículo de Marinkovic en La Paz". Éxito Noticias (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2019-11-20. Retrieved 2019-11-15.
  2. ↑ Kovarik, Jacquelyn (13 November 2019). "Bolivia's Anti-Indigenous Backlash Is Growing". The Nation. The Nation. Archived from the original on 13 November 2019. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
  3. ↑ "Así es Luis Fernando Camacho, el líder opositor boliviano que le dio un ultimátum a Evo Morales". CNN (in European Spanish). 2019-11-05. Retrieved 2019-11-12.
  4. ↑ "Bolivia judge orders pre-trial detention for opposition head". AP NEWS. 2022-12-30. Retrieved 2022-12-30.