00:00We continue in Bolivia. A judicial hearing is on the way that will define in the next few hours
00:05whether the main defendants accused of the November 2019 coup d'etat will regain their freedom.
00:11The judicial process is in its final phase. Our correspondent, Freddy Morales, tells us the details.
00:18Last week, the Supreme Court of Justice instructed the judges hearing the trial against the main defendants in the 2019 coup
00:25to verify whether the procedural deadlines were met in order to suspend their preventive detention.
00:32We are going to be free, and they have to go to jail for having imprisoned innocent people.
00:39They are patriots, they have violated their human rights, corrupt judiciary.
00:47We will present the cessation in the next few hours and tomorrow we will be at the hearing to request pure and simple liberty disproving the procedural risks.
00:55The judicial hearing will continue in the coming hours to determine whether Luis Fernando Camacho, governor of Santa Cruz,
01:06and Marco Pumari, former civic leader of Potosi, two of the promoters of the coup, will regain their freedom.
01:15The J report at the time has been very clear. It has reported that in 2019 there were massacres, torture, and serious human rights violations.
01:25The process known as COPE-1 is already in its sentencing phase.
01:32It is not possible with a circular that pretends to revise the deadlines to go back to the preparatory stage,
01:37which has already expired. In this order what is denoted is an action that intends to benefit,
01:44a partial action that intends to benefit the main perpetrators of the coup of 2019.
01:48The state attorney general's office, which together with several state institutions participates as a prosecuting party,
01:59warned that this procedure is not appropriate.
02:01In these cases it is not appropriate to review the procedural deadlines.
02:08Because we are in the trial stage, and if we wanted to do so we would have to verify the procedural risks
02:15that I had already mentioned before entering the hearing.
02:18That in both cases Camusho and Pumeri have procedural risks of obstruction and escape.
02:30It was explained that the procedural deadlines for preventive detention are applicable during the investigation stage,
02:37but now the trial is in the sentencing stage.
02:39This has an exception, and it is essentially that these two elements do not apply because we are according to the law.
02:54In crimes against the state and crimes of corruption, and do not forget that in the formal accusation,
03:00and that we defended, that we are in final arguments, we are in crimes of sedition-terrorism.
03:04Fernando Camacho, one of the defendants, revealed after the 2019 que, that his father, a businessman,
03:17arranged with the military and police to disavow the then-president Evo Morales.
03:27Judicial authorities are promoting a review of the situation of the defendants,
03:30after the victory of the right-wing in the elections in the middle of this month.
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