After the harsh defeat of the socialist government in Bolivia, the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) ordered the country's departmental courts to review, within 24 hours, the preventive detention proceedings of three of the most prominent opposition figures: former president Jeanine Áñez, former Santa Cruz governor Luis Fernando Camacho, and Marco Antonio Pumari.
This measure comes just days after the heavy electoral defeat of the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), which lost its political majority in a result that completely reshapes the national landscape.
In practice, the TSJ's directive announces the release of all political prisoners, who have remained incarcerated under false charges of conspiracy, terrorism, and sedition since the 2019 crisis. These three opposition leaders are victims of the abusive use of preventive detention as a tool of judicial persecution, used by a socialist regime that lasted more than 20 years.
