November 3, 2022, 22:50 PM
November 3, 2022, 22:50 PM
After 10:00 p.m. this Thursday, November 3, and after the organized neighbors decided to lift the fence and the promontories of land with their own hands and some shovels so that the endless row of stranded cisterns enters more than a week , About twenty of these managed to enter to start refueling.
For his part, the president of the Bolivian Fiscal Oilfields (YPFB), Armin Dorgathen, affirmed that the neighbors who raised the fence at the entrance to the refinery were persuaded, as they feared some confrontation what would have caused “many deaths” due to the danger of having a spark that causes an explosion large-scale.
The neighbors insisted that they were not going to leave until the gates were opened and see that the tankers enter and that they leave loaded with fuel. Finally, to calm things down, a couple of dozen entered.
Dorgathen indicated that the 400 tankers that were stranded on Santos Dumont avenue occurred because they arrived suddenly from Camiriwhere the siege was lifted by organizations related to the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS).
“We were carrying out a relatively normal operation with the entry of tankers, now we have set up a security fence, we ask people to withdraw at least 1 kilometer away to reactivate the entry of trucks,” he said.
He anticipated that they will not file a criminal complaint against the residents of Santos Dumont Avenuesince the protest did not escalate in the face of the disaster that could have been caused.
Some neighbors remain vigilant at the refinery. At the same time, denounced some groups of clashes of the MAS they launched firecrackers of great impact on the side of the refinery as an act of provocation, in sight and patience of the Police who were only waiting at the scene.
Federico Morón, councilor for the Autonomous Community (CA), denounced that these groups in favor of the Government, with these provocative acts, they intend to put citizens at risk like in Senkata in 2019.
