October 23, 2022, 9:22 PM
October 23, 2022, 9:22 PM
By: Correspondents / Jéssica Vega
On the second day of indefinite unemployment that is accepted in the department of Santa Cruz, the provinces also make themselves felt with the measure. places from where reinforce roadblock pickets in the income to the towns, meanwhile, the vehicular and pedestrian circulation in the streets of the municipalities was diminished, unlike normal days, for which they perceive that the strike is carried out peacefully.
The president of the Provincial Civic Committees, José Ernesto Serrate, indicated that there are 58 blockade points installed in the department of Santa Cruz in compliance with the second day of the indefinite strike. “We will not lift the blockade until the decree is signed that the national census will take place in 2023,” he said.
Also, blamed the mayor of Puerto Quijarro for instigating people to attack civic and to the people who were preparing to start the indefinite strike with blockades in the border region with Brazil on the first day.
“From our Committee We regret the death we have had in the Germán Busch province, and from here we blame the mayor Luis Chambi, because he is directly responsible for instigating people,” he said.
For his part, the governor of Santa Cruz, Luis Fernando Camacho, indicated that this day, in the municipality of Camiri, a “shock group to end the MAS tried to unblock” the picket installed in the region, but the resistance of the young Camireños managed to prevent it.
“Today the masistas wanted to break the blockade in Camiri, I want us to give a round of applause to the Camireño youth who got up. And I want to thank the civic members of the provinces for their tireless work, people who work for the love of their people,” Camacho declared.
He stressed that the people of Santa Cruz still remain in the streets, carrying out blockades in a peaceful manner, but that they will resist the attacks. “Once again this beautiful town in the streets achieves what in La Paz they do not want to give usthis town is peaceful, this town is hard-working, but this town is rebellious and brave, and it will not go home if we don’t have a census in 2023,” he said.
Blockade on the border to Corumbá
In Ascent of Guarayos the residents joined the indefinite strike that is carried out in demand of a Population and Housing Census in 2023, where despite the fact that the businesses opened their stalls and the internal traffic of motorcycles and Vehicles are regular on the internal streets of the neighborhoods, but the roadblock remains.
The strike almost goes unnoticed in the same municipality, but the blocking point at the entrance to the town is the one that has become overcrowded, place from where they take turns to avoid the passage of vehicles and also organize a common pot.
In this locality it was decided to give an intermediate room to the highway blockade twice a dayone at 6:00 and the second at noon, in order to avoid a crowd on the road.
More than 40% of the shops in Montero closed their stalls. Photo: Juan Carlos Fernandez
El Montero, in one of the municipalities where it is considered an area with the greatest support for the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), an unusual day is experienced, since the indefinite strike is felt from its streets looking deserted, little open trade, little traffic and with the blockade on the new highway to Cochabamba.
In this capital of the pBishop Santistevan province and one of the most important intermediate cities in the country, due to its characteristics of economic development based on agro-industrial activities and provision of services, was fulfilled its second day of indefinite departmental unemployment, where it was seen that less than 60% of its markets attended during Sunday and shuttle service was reduced.
Streets they wore deserted in the municipality of Montero/Photo: Juan Carlos Fernández
The pressure measure is complied with from midnight on Friday maintaining its points of blockade to the passage of motorized vehicles, in the south, north and east entrances of the city, having very few vehicles -especially heavy ones- stranded, this also because in the municipalities of Buena Vista, San Carlos and Portachuelo they also maintain roadblocks.
East of Montero, in Saavedra and Minero; To the south, in Valle Sánchez and Warnes, the residents are carrying out the indefinite strike with the closure of the roads at the entrance to their towns, which lightens the vehicular load in the rest of the regions and prevents the agglomeration from being greater.
They cut off traffic to trucks at the height of the municipality of Pailón/Photo: Hubert Vaca
In Pailon, heThe second day of indefinite unemployment due to the census is carried out with a blockade at the entrance of the municipality, in the same way in Puerto Pailaswhere they block at the height of the bridge of this town.
The female civic president of Pailón, Jéssica Justiniano, indicated that they will remain firm in the blockade, but they determined to give intermediate quarters in three specific hours of each day to ease the load on the road, one at 6:00, another at 12:00, and the last at 18:00.
In this way, the second day of the strike in Pailón was complied with/Photo: Hubert Vaca
This Sunday, in the interior of the town, little vehicular movement was seen in the internal streets of the municipality, without interprovincial transport truffis.
In Puerto Pailas, a town dependent on the municipality of Cotoca, the residents blocked vehicular traffic on the bridge over the Río Grande, place where they also make a common pot for those who support the measure demanding that the indefinite unemployment by a census in 2023.
The deputy mayor, Ruddy Callaú, stated that the blockade will continue until the demand requested by the people of Santa Cruz is achieved. In this section they allow the passage of trucks every six hours, and the union sector determined to attend only until noon.
The blockade picket in Puerto Pailas
in the small region
In the municipalities of San Ignacio de Velasco, San Miguel de Velasco and San Rafael, the residents keep the roads closed with blockade pickets, a place where the civic promote the measure and strategically keep the route fenced off.
Even in San Rafael, a municipality that is in vEager to live their Patronal feast, they have not given up on complying with the measure called to demand that the Government authorities repeal Supreme Decree 4760 that sets the Population and Housing Census for 2024. “The Patronal party is not a reason to set aside the mandate of the people,” said the president of the Civic Committee, Miguel Ángel Vaca.
San Rafael blocked the entrance to the town/ Photo: Juan Pablo Cahuana
Commercial activities in San Rafael are normal due to the fact that many people left the cattle ranches, the lumber companies did the same to make their weekly purchases, iPeople from other towns even came to set up a fair selling clothes and attractions for children.
“The town was opened to rejoice in their faith, but the blockade continues, it is a mandate, we cannot suspend it and we stand in solidarity with the Germán Busch province and its civic authorities. This is not a whim, it is not a political struggle, it is a right and the Chiquitano peoples that are emerging are thirsty for progress,” Vaca declared.
In San Rafael they decided to support with blockades/Photo: Juan Pablo Cahuana
Nevertheless, one of the municipalities that did not comply with the indefinite strike summoned in Santa Cruz was the municipality of San Matías, region where all its activities were carried out normally.
Another area that did not join the measure was Vallegrande. The merchants attended their stalls in the markets normally, as did the taxi and motorcycle service. The bus terminal was opened to the public, but no passengers were seen. Nevertheless, Vallegrande university students joined a blockade picket in Samaipata, measure supported by the residents of Caballero and Florida.
