Cornered by the Federation of Minersmainly, the National Executive Committee (CEN) of the Bolivian workers’ central (COB) convened to its XVII National Congress that will choose the new leaders of the maximum union entity of the country; Juan Carlos Huarachi decided to take the event to the city of Cobija.
“The XVIII Ordinary National Congress will be held in the city of Cobija, of the department of Pando, in October 6 to 10, 2025 In the closed departmental coliseum, professor, Alfredo Huary Gonzales, located on Tahuamanu Avenue, ”says the call released on Tuesday.
Huarachi was chosen with the venia of Evo Morales in February 2018 and his mandate had to last two years. But in 2019 the political crisis was unleashed in Bolivia and in 2020 he achieved a re -election, supported by the pandemic. In February 2022 he turned an extended in Congress and was ratified as president until 2024 by ‘acclamation’ in an event that took place precisely in Cobija, on that occasion he had the support of the government of Luis Arce.
In January 2024 Huarachi again achieved the support of another expanded one who without prerogatives prolonged him in office. In March of this year, the Miners Congress was held in Tupiza, Potosí and that event demanded the resignation of Huarachi and the immediate call to Congress, Congress, The conminatory took five months to become effective.
“National Confederations and Federations, according to COB Organic Statute, They must inevitably comply with their union contributions to this managementotherwise they will not be able to participate in the XVIII Ordinary Congress, ”says the Cobista call, in an action aimed at the Teachers who decided to suspend their contributions because they reject Huarachi.
It also warns that affiliated organizations that have ‘internal organic problems and are divided’, They must overcome their conflicts, and only those who have ministerial resolution may attend. Peasant organizations are divided, but the government only recognizes the groups that are related.
