October 21, 2022, 8:44 AM
October 21, 2022, 8:44 AM
The national leadership of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), in a meeting in Chimoré (Cochabamba), “suggested” the transfer to Santa Cruz of more than 2,000 “delegates” from the different departments to form “peaceful negotiation groups” to eliminate the blockades at the start of the indefinite strike due to the census in 2023.
The document makes an “emergency” call for the formation of these groupswhich would begin to operate from 05:00 on Saturday, in the vicinity of Roca and Coronado avenues, in the fourth ring road of the Santa Cruz capital.
The approach was confirmed to EL DEBER by the vice president of MAS, Gerardo García, who said that due to the “great concern” that they have for “no one wants Santa Cruz to be harmed” because “there is no need to strike, harm people, mistreat people”, is that they “suggested” the transfer of people from all departments so that they “remove the blockades”.
“At least (that) has been suggested, let’s hope that this type of dialogue will take place, conversation, or come to some kind of agreement. That has been suggested, and hopefully it can conform and reach certain agreements, ”he said in a telephone contact.
Interview with Gerardo Garcia:
According to the document, the MAS executive committee will be transferred to the eastern capital with 500 delegates from La Paz, 450 from Cochabamba, 250 from Potosí, 250 from Chuquisaca400 from Oruro, 100 from Tarija, 150 from Beni and 150 from Pando, as well as representatives from Csutcb, Bartolinas, intercultural, Cidob and Conamaq.
“The Civic Committee has been threatening, that, with deaths, that the Government will be responsible, that is already an anticipation, that they are surely prepared, even to kill, because talking about the dead is something else”, added the leader.
Garcia said that the MAS did not intervene or disrupt the councils organized by the institutions of Santa Cruz. “We have not been threatening nor have we done anything, we have the same right, it is not a threat, it is a concentration that our companions are going to show”, he insisted.
confirmed that, although organizing the national rally was discussed, an agreement was not reachedfor which the call of the social organizations of the Santa Cruz department is “respectful”, which this day will star in a town hall.
“People (are) very worried when their right to circulate, to run their business, is prohibited, because they earn and eat from day to day. yessurely they will try to clean the streets, open the way. In that eagerness and bustle there may be a confrontationbut our people are not because they want to confront each other, but because of the need they have to go to work,” explained the MAS vice president.
He urged that the Bolivian Police guarantee the right to free movement, did not confirm the presence of Evo Morales in the town hall this afternoon and he did not dare to estimate the number of people who will be concentrated. He justified the transfer of people from La Paz and other regions, and said that the presence of public officials is “voluntary.”
“If they want to go on strike, let them do it at home, close their offices. Before the strikes were civic, they did not close in the streets, they did not loot merchandise, before they were civic strikes and today we miss that, now they are with blockades, persecutions, mistreatment, before these strikes were more civilized, not like now”, he concluded.
