Luis Fernando Camacho

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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 (age 45)
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[change | change source]

  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.