From Pumari to Costas, Camacho turned his back on five allies

 Vladimir Peña indicated that the Governor of Santa Cruz "has become the Judas of the opposition". Creemos, the political front he leads, defends him.

Luis Fernando Camacho, governor of Santa Cruz, turned his back on five of his allies. Santa Cruz politicians qualify him as a disloyal person who now seeks to "take out of the game" regional figures that could overshadow him.

The people with whom he had this behavior are: Marco Pumari, Jeanine Añez, Angélica Sosa, Jhonny Fernández and Rubén Costas.

In December 2021, former civic leader Marco Pumari, who was his candidate for Vice-President in 2020, was arrested due to the 2019 post-electoral conflicts. Camacho could not make it to Potosí to follow up on the case. "Camacho did not defend neither Pumari who was his running mate, nor his bench", argued Nadia Beller, jurist and former legislator candidate.

On December 8, 2019, an audio was broadcast in which a voice attributed to Pumari asks Camacho for Customs and 250 thousand dollars. In an interview on CNN, the Santa Cruz native was in evidence as the one who leaked that material to the media.

In March, Camacho pointed against the "corruption" of the transitional government. However, according to sources of that administration, when Jeanine Añez assumed the Presidency, the then civic "went with a list to appoint ministers". They indicate that he placed people he trusted at the head of at least eight ministries.

Congressman Omar Rueda, from Creemos, detailed that for the general elections of 2020 Jhonny Fernández lent Camacho the acronym of Unión Cívica Solidaridad (UCS) so that he could run.

"UCS lent Camacho the acronym for a national project and used it for a departmental project only for him to benefit. He made an agreement with Angélica Sosa (...). When it was the subnational elections he asked us for support for Sosa, and we could not betray Jhonny, as deputies of the UCS faction", he indicated.

In December 2021, Camacho argued that there was an alleged conspiracy between the Movimiento Al Socialismo and former mayors Percy Fernández and Sosa, for the case of phantom items. "The height of cynicism. The scandal of the 800 items occurred when MAS was an ally of that administration", he emphasized.

Desirée Bravo, former councilwoman of Santa Cruz Para Todos (SPT), detailed that Sosa supported Camacho for both national and subnational elections. "Architect Sosa announced that SPT made alliance with Camacho for the national issue and then for the Governorship. It shows that he is a politician like those of the past, that when the ship sinks, he jumps," he complemented.

In the last month of last year, the Santa Cruz Government denounced Rubén Costas for allegedly using resources from the fight against covid for the propaganda of his mayoral candidates. Days ago, the Governor branded his predecessor as a traitor of the autonomy.

Vladimir Peña, former member of Demócratas, indicated that Costas was warned that an alliance with Camacho was risky because he would be disloyal to him.

"Camacho handed Costas and the Democrats on a silver platter to MAS. He made use of the Democrats to get to the governorship, so that they would not put up a candidate and so that he would give them his structure for the campaign and electoral control. Camacho has become the Judas of the opposition", said Peña.

Beller expressed that the Governor of Santa Cruz does not want to have competition in Santa Cruz, as he did when he was candidate for Governor. He added that with these actions he wants to divert the attention on "his bad management".

"To Angélica Sosa he denied her, after she supported him in his campaign. With Jhonny Fernandez he fought and that he lent him the acronym to be a candidate. He had quotas in the transition and denied Jeanine Añez. It is the disloyal character that Camacho has, he is disloyal with himself and with his principles. Many people supported him and now he received Camacho's stab", he added.

Página Siete called and sent a message to Camacho to have his counterpart. The Communication Unit of the Governor's Office referred as spokesman to Congressman Andres Romero, who said that there is a commission in charge of the follow-up of the Pumari process. At the same time he maintained that the ministries in the transition were a request of the civic movement.

"The Civic Committee made a call not to divide the vote, so not only one alliance, all the political tents gave their support to Luis Fernando Camacho", said the opponent.