October 20, 2022, 11:00 PM
October 20, 2022, 11:00 PM
This Friday there will be a town hall convened by the Movement for Socialism (MAS), in the capital of Santa Cruz, as a rejection of the indefinite strike, in demand of the 2023 census. From La Paz, deputies of We Believe and the Citizen Community denounced the alleged hauling people from other departments, This complaint was joined by deputies from Cruceños and assembly members from We Believe, such as Erwin Bazán, Andrés Romero, Keila García and Martha Gutiérrez.
Beto Astoraga, deputy of the Citizen Community, indicated at a press conference that the MAS is generating parallelism. “They are going to take people from the Chapare, they are going to take shock groups, from the Satucos, from Columna Sur; they are going to take paid people and public officials, ”she indicated.
Also, some state officials reported that they had been forced to move to the Santa Cruz capital to participate in the meeting called by the MAS. On Thursday night, APG photojournalists captured images of public officials boarding buses that will take them to Santa Cruz to participate in the blue council.
The Governor of Santa Cruz, Luis Fernando Camacho, pointed out that with the “carrying of people from other departments, the MAS wants to distort the Santa Cruz struggle. It’s simple, here you have to change the date of the census (to 2023)There is no complication,” he said.
On the other hand, he referred to the president Luis Arce as arrogant and arrogant, because he does not “want to advance the census one year”; he reminded her that the request is not from a single person, but from more than 1.5 million people, from a massive council.
“They are bringing masistas from other departments to hold a rally, and after the rally stay to generate violence. Here if there is violence, it is not from Santa Cruz, the responsibility lies with the president and the ministers, that they only come to generate confrontation in this department,” Camacho said.
For his part, Stello Cochamanidis, second vice president of the Committee for Santa Cruz, referred to this activity as a “so-called council” and described it as a “Assembly of masistas, paid people, public officials forced to comeand their intercultural and those who are attached to them to live from the State”.
In that sense, he asked that on Friday tour the public offices in La Paz, as a way of verifying that indeed, state officials moved to Santa Cruz. He recognized the right to protest that all Bolivians have and asked that this activity be peaceful.
“The MAS understands that it does not have the strength or the militancy to carry out his council in Santa Cruz, and he is resorting to state institutions, not only in La Paz, to show that they have some body,” said Bazán, in time to announce that his caucus will oversee that in public agencies, are not working ‘half strength’ (due to the absence of officials).
Martha Gutiérrez addressed the ministers Édgar Montaño and Eduardo Del Castillo, for their statements in recent days, and told them: “Not even carrying people, nor forcing you to come to Santa Cruz they are going to stop this movement that it belongs to the people and it is a fair fight, if there are injuries, if there are deaths, it will be the sole responsibility of these irresponsible ministers.”
