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The rector of the Tomás Frías Autonomous University (UATF) of Potosí, Pedro López, affirmed that the university leader Max Mendoza was the link to schedule meetings with the ministers of the Evo Morales government.
“I suppose that during the time that has elapsed and the administration that was being carried out, this has happened, because it depended on him that any university that wants to have an interview or have an audience in different ministries, had to go through the permission of this man” López stated, according to ANF.
In this context, he mentioned that the statement is based on his own experience, since, in order to have any contact with the government authorities, Mendoza had to be the link to make it happen.
“That is the experience that I have had, precisely to be able to have (contact with) a ministry, he had to be the actor to be able to act as a link. That’s a situation that I think is not correct,” he said.
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The university authority explained that Mendoza’s appointment was illegal, since he had to have a bachelor’s degree as a minimum requirement, in addition to being a current teacher, something that the former representatives of the presidium let go.
In this context, he pointed to his predecessor, Rolando Bohorquez, and the leader of the teachers’ establishment, Rodrigo Rodríguez, as responsible for having authorized Mendoza in the position of the CEUB.
The State Attorney General’s Office reported yesterday that at least four criminal complaints were filed against the questioned leader. Mendoza reappeared in a video released by the Bolivian University Confederation (CUB), accompanied by leaders of local university federations, and attacked his detractors, but did not explain the complaint against him for perpetuating himself in the student leadership and receiving a salary of the CEUB.
The student leader assured that he did not receive any illegal money and that his assets are due to his work. Mendoza has been enrolled in the Law course at the University of San Simón de Cochabamba for 25 years, during which time he only passed two subjects, as confirmed by the vice-chancellor’s office of that university.
