October 14, 2022, 4:00 AM
October 14, 2022, 4:00 AM
Government attended the demands of the Huanuni miners and the Red Ponchos. In this way he deactivated the pressure measures announced by both sectors. However, there are still problems with pineapple producers, coca growers, Santa Cruz institutions, the residents of Tucuta, the Chiquitano indigenous people, and the miners of Andacaba, Potosí. Most installed roadblocks that have paralyzed traffic in five departments.
“We have reached this instance, dialogue after dialogue and with various commitments. There is no progress. They have exceeded the patience and calm of all workers. Now the Potosí unions have shown solidarity,” reported the leader of the Andacaba mine, Gonzalo Quispe, in time to explain that they have not received wages for two and a half years.
The miner clarified that the blockades will continue on the Potosí-Oruro highway and that they will also cut in the four entrance gates to the city of potosina with the help of unions, despite the fact that today Friday they will hold a meeting with Minister Ramiro Villavicencio, in La Paz.
Secondly, pineapple growers continue to block the Cochabamba-Santa Cruz highway for non-compliance with the construction of an industrial plant for this fruit.
“We got here because of the non-attention of a ministry in the field. The pineapple processing plant is a project that has been developed with resources from the association of municipalities in the tropics,” said the former secretary of the Mamoré-Bulo Bulo Federation, Eusebio Rodríguez.
in Santa Cruz, Chiquitano indigenous people block the Bioceanic route that leads to Beni to demand that the Government not hand over that indigenous territory to outsiders.
The residents of Tujuta, who ask for the construction of a school, on the afternoon of yesterday they declared an intermediate room in the La Paz-Oruro blockade while the dialogue lasts.
Meanwhile, the Santa Cruz institutionality is getting ready to enter an indefinite strike since October 22 due to the postponement of the census. Meanwhile, the coca growers of Yungas are organizing to reorganize their Committee of Self-Defense to continue with the protests against the installation of the parallel coca market in La Paz.
This Monday they will present women coca growers from the central, subcentral and different regions who will be the new representatives, then the men will join.
Other conflicts that are still latent are due to the administration of the Public Manager, teachers insist that workers take over. The second has to do with the internal problems of the MAS and the discontent with two ministers.
President Luis Arce meeting with the Red Ponchos, Wednesday night, committed to the expansion of the Dairy Processing and Industrialization Plant and the implementation of the Fish Farm.
After 12 hours of dialogue, the Huanuni mining company agreed with Minister Marcelo Montenegro temporarily paralyze the migration of data to the Public Manager and repeal Supreme Decree 4783although they asked for the abrogation of the norm.
After the agreements, the miners suspended the peaceful takeover of the Central Obrera Boliviana (COB) and ratified their discontent with the executive Juan Carlos Huarachi, whom they asked to urgently convene a congress to renew the directive. “The extension is harming our institution,” said Ronald Mamani, adding that the miners will have an extended.
