A Bolivian court held a final hearing Wednesday on the release of opposition leader Luis Fernando Camacho after two years of pretrial detention. The conservative politician's widely expected release would deliver a victory to his supporters, who long criticized his prosecution as politically motivated.
A judge on Tuesday lifted Camacho's preventative detention in the explosive case, which has not yet gone to trial, and Wednesday's hearing reviews a pretrial detention order against him in a different but related case from 2022. His detractors say the decision reflects a judicial pendulumswinging to the right.
