Press Release Aug 29, 2025 HRF celebra la liberación del gobernador boliviano Luis Fernando Camacho y pide la liberación de todos los presos políticos y la restauración de la independencia judicial Human Rights Foundation (HRF) celebra la liberación esta tarde del prisionero de conciencia boliviano Luis Fernando Camacho, tras dos años y ocho meses de detención arbitraria….
Press Release Aug 29, 2025 HRF celebrates the release of Governor Luis Fernando Camacho in Bolivia The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) welcomes this afternoon’s release of Bolivian prisoner of conscience Luis Fernando Camacho after two years and eight months of arbitrary imprisonment in the notorious Chonchocoro maximum security prison.
Press Release May 6, 2025 Bolivia: HRF advierte que jueces que ignoran decisión de la ONU se enfrentarán a sanciones Magnitsky La Human Rights Foundation (HRF) condena enérgicamente al Tribunal de Sentencia Penal, Anticorrupción y Violencia Contra la Mujer Sexto de la ciudad de La Paz, presidido por el juez Marco Antonio Vargas, por su negativa a acatar una decisión emitida en marzo de 2025 por el Grupo de Trabajo sobre la Detención Arbitraria de las Naciones Unidas (GTDA), que determinó que la detención preventiva del gobernador de Santa Cruz, Luis Fernando Camacho, es arbitraria y viola el derecho internacional.
Press Release May 6, 2025 Bolivia: HRF warns judges ignoring UN decision will face Magnitsky sanctions The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) strongly condemns Bolivia’s Sixth Court for Criminal, Anti-Corruption, and Violence Against Women Matters in La Paz, presided over by Judge Marco Antonio Vargas, for its refusal to comply with a March 2025 decision issued by the United Nations
Press Release Apr 1, 2025 HRF Brings UN Attention to Rights Abuses in Four Countries Last week, the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) submitted contributions to the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review regarding Belarus, Honduras, Libya, and Malawi.
Press Release Mar 28, 2025 HRF succeeds in UN petition: Bolivia condemned for arbitrary detention of democratically elected governor The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) welcomes the decision of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) ruling that the arrest of Santa Cruz Governor Luiz Fernando Camacho in Bolivia was arbitrary and in violation of international law. HRF submitted the petition on behalf of Camacho in February 2023.
Blog Post Jan 23, 2023 Bolivia’s Jailing Opposition Leaders on Absurd ‘Terrorism’ Charges A Dec. 28 police operation involving over 40 heavily armed officers — most of them in plain clothes and wearing masks — violently arrested Luis Fernando Camacho, one of Bolivia’s most important opposition leaders and governor of the region with the country’s largest city, and swiftly moved him to La Paz in a military helicopter.
Blog Post Nov 7, 2022 The Cost of Defending the Environment in Latin America On July 5, 2022, Venezuelan indigenous leader and environmentalist Virgilio Trujillo Arana was murdered in broad daylight.
Press Release Aug 30, 2018 Bolivia: HRF Urges IAHCR to Stop Evo Morales’ Authoritarian Power Grabs Bolivia: HRF Urges IAHCR to Stop Evo Morales’ Authoritarian Power Grabs NEW YORK (August 30, 2018) — On August 17, the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) delivered a letter to Inter-American…
Press Release Aug 31, 2018 HRF pide a la CIDH promover aplicación de la cláusula democrática a Bolivia El 17 de agosto pasado, Human Rights Foundation (HRF) entregó una carta al representante de la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) José Eguiguren, y llamó al también relator para Bolivia del organismo a denunciar la alteración del orden democrático en ese país a cargo del gobierno autoritario del presidente Morales.
Press Release Jun 8, 2018 Evo Morales Loses Bid to Influence Inter-American Court NEW YORK (June 8, 2018) — This week, the Organization of American States (OAS) refrained from electing Nardi Suxo Iturry, a Bolivian former minister and political ally of Evo Morales,…
News Dec 14, 2017 HRF in the News — En El País sobre la crisis democrática en Bolivia El historiador boliviano Alcides Arguedas relata que, tras hacerse redactar una Constitución a medida en 1868, y mientras sus diputados elogiaban sus virtudes de estadista, el presidente Mariano Melgarejo interrumpió la tertulia palaciega y dijo:
News Dec 14, 2017 HRF in the News — En El País sobre la crisis democrática en Bolivia El historiador boliviano Alcides Arguedas relata que, tras hacerse redactar una Constitución a medida en 1868, y mientras sus diputados elogiaban sus virtudes de estadista, el presidente Mariano Melgarejo interrumpió la tertulia palaciega y dijo: “Sepan todos los honorables señores diputados que la Constitución de 1861, que era muy buena, me la metí en este bolsillo (señalando el bolsillo izquierdo de su pantalón); y la de 1868, que es mejor, según estos doctores, ya me la he metido en este otro (señalando el bolsillo derecho); y que nadie gobierna en Bolivia más que yo”.
Press Release Nov 30, 2017 HRF to OAS: Apply Democracy Clause to Authoritarian Bolivia NEW YORK (November 30, 2017) — In an unprecedented move this Tuesday, Bolivia’s highest court issued a decision eliminating presidential term limits, which will allow President Evo Morales to run for reelection indefinitely.
News Oct 13, 2017 Bolivia: President Evo Morales’ bid to extend term limits sparks mass protest Thousands of Bolivians have taken part in protests against President Evo Morales’ bid to run for a fourth term. Morales’ party asked…
News Oct 6, 2017 This is No Joke: Bolivian Ruler Invokes His ‘Human Right’ to Stay in Power While many of us were trying to absorb the news of the Las Vegas massacre and President Trump’s bungled response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, a growing political scandal in South America went almost unnoticed in the media: Bolivia’s populist President Evo Morales is making an illegal bid to run for a fourth term in office…
