The federations of journalists of the axis of the country they repudiated this Friday the decoration granted by Héctor Aguilar Mercado to the president of the Chamber of DeputiesFreddy Mamani, and they recalled that this person does not have any representation to act on behalf of the country’s communicators.
“The Federation of Press Workers of La Paz (Ftplp), at this juncture of political crisis, makes known the public complaint against Mr. Héctor Aguilar who, in recent days on behalf of a supposed National Confederation of Workers of the La Paz Press of Bolivia, the task was given to carry out recognitions to political figures, not only undermining trade union independencebut the own statutes of the union organizations”, indicates the document of the union of La Paz.
On April 27, the president of the deputies published photographs of the decoration he received from the supposed union of communicators, the author of the recognition was, Héctor Aguilar and Mamani said he was proud of that act.
The reaction of the journalists began in Plaza Murillo with the workers who cover that source daily and used the WhatsApp accounts to express their annoyance and remember that journalists on principle do not pay such tributes, much less to political actors.
We express our total rejection and ignorance because we believe that we owe ourselves to the citizenry, that due to this type of act could call into question the independent and transparent work that we carry out in an honest and balanced manner day by day”, journalists from the political area published in a collective statement.
From Santa Cruz, the protest came through the departmental federation that also listed violations of the code of ethics What did Aguilar commit? Market. There were nine observations launched by the journalists from Santa Cruz and they were unaware of the mandate of the questioned leader.
“Mr. Héctor Aguilar Mercado has not represented the national press union for many years, so his acts are null and void. He claims to be executive secretary of the Trade Union Confederation of Workers of the Bolivian Dam, when at least six Federations of the country have ignored it on many occasions for having incurred in a number of irregularities, ”says the document.
Cochabamba, also issued its union statement and recalled that Aguilar Mercado holds meetings that it qualifies as “congresses”, without the support of journalists. “We urge all Bolivian press workers to reiterate and make public the lack of recognition of Aguilar as the legal leader of the press,” says the Cochabamba journalists’ statement.