Productive sectors of Cochabamba ask for tax, banking, customs amnesty and flexibility in the payment of bonuses

Through a six-point decisive vote, signed on Thursday afternoon, productive sectors of the department of Cochabamba such as agriculture, unions, self-employed workers, vehicle sales, flower growers, fruit growers, Federation of self-sales and Federation of private markets – among others – asked the Government to provide an immediate solution to the problems. blockades and the shortage of diesel and dollars.

At the highest point, the fourth, and with the approach of the end of the year, they also demanded the application of a tax, banking and customs amnestyas well as the flexibility to payment of bonuses and rescheduling of debts banking of the affected sectors.

“Declare a state of emergency and call on the sectors of Cochabamba to continue with the staggered mobilizations for Tuesday, November 5 2024”, says the document in its last point.

This Thursday they are fulfilled 19 days of blockades by supporters of the Movement towards Socialism (MAS), who respond to former president Evo Morales and, according to the Government, intend to impose their candidacy for the next elections and annul the process followed by the Public Ministry for the crime of human trafficking and smuggling.

Cochabamba has been the most affected department, being isolated from the east and west of the country, while the shortage of food, industrial supplies and fuel It has caused the closure of businesses and companies.

“We demand that the central government provide an immediate solution, taking all the measures necessary for clear blockages in the different roads of the country that are isolating the department of Cochabamba,” states the document from the Cochabamba sectors.

Likewise, he demanded that the Government “adopt all mechanisms to guarantee public order and free transit and, if necessary, dictate a state of siege, just as the previous president and current blockade Juan Evo Morales Ayma did, in the capture of the governor at that time, Leopoldo Fernández, in the 2008 administration.”