The Coordination for the Defense of Liberty and Democracy emerges, replacing the Inter-Institutional Committee

After a meeting of more than three hours, representatives of different institutions, departmental authorities, indigenous peoples, and neighborhood councils agreed by broad consensus replace the Inter-institutional Committee with the name of the Coordinator for the Defense of Liberty and Democracy.

The meeting took place on Thursday afternoon in the library room of the Faculty of Technology of the Gabriel René Moreno Autonomous University (Uagrm), at the head of the vice-chancellor of this house of higher studies, Reinerio Vargas.

The appointment did not go unnoticed. due to the absence of the authorities of the Committee for Santa Cruz and the Santa Cruz City Hall, which was questioned by those present. The president of the Departmental Legislative Assembly (ALD), Zvonko Matkovic, was one of the authorities who observed the absence of the civic and He rejected that this instance is a parallelism to the moral house of the people of Santa Cruz.

After the birth of the Coordinator, the members declared an emergency in demand for political prisonersamong whom is the governor Luis Fernando Camacho, and of the more than 10 women detained for the attacks that took place on the outskirts of the departmental entity where the MAS assembly member, Muriel Cruz, was seriously injured.

As a first measure, this Friday, June 23, at 5:00 p.m. will carry out a sit-in on the outskirts of the departmental Prosecutor’s Officedemanding that the complaint filed by the Bar Association, which sued the Minister of Government, Eduardo Del Castillo and the Minister of Public Works, Édgar Montaño, be viable for drug trafficking in light of the latest events recorded in the country such as the notorious case of ‘narco flight ‘.

At the beginning of May, the board of directors of the Committee for Santa Cruz decided not to be part of the Inter-institutional Committee, due to the concern that the formation of any other commission could generate an alleged “parallelism” institutional and cause divisions.