Right-wing Bolivian opposition leader Luis Fernando Camacho has been released from jail after spending nearly three years in pretrial detention for his role in unrest that led to the 2019 ouster of then left-wing President Evo Morales.

As the political right’s momentum accelerates ahead of a presidential election run-off in October, Camacho returned to a hero’s welcome in the eastern province of Santa Cruz after his release on Friday from a maximum-security prison near La Paz.

Thousands of supporters waved the city’s green and white flags as he walked down an avenue to the main square, where the governor’s office is located.

Camacho addressed supporters who had gathered: “It has been an honour to be imprisoned for almost three years, for the struggle of my people and for democracy.”

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