Prada’s proposal was the first known to the civic and the university; they deny having met today with the government

The so-called “dialogue channel” which was allegedly established between the Government and civic leaders and departmental and university authorities it’s a complete mysterysince the head of the Inter-institutional Committee and rector of the Uagrm, Vicente Cuéllar, denied having sat down with Executive authorities to negotiate, what is more, affirmed that the public proposal made known by the Minister of the Presidency, María Nela Prada, at the end of Friday afternoon, was the first that she knew officially.

“I have not participated in any meeting with any authority of the ExecutiveI think that now, with this public invitation, and once the invitation is sent to us (then it was 8:00 p.m. on Friday), we will know the day, time and place to be able to sit down at once”, said the rector of university, added that Prada’s offer was made known to her by the media.

civic president, Rómulo Calvo (who maintains house arrest 24 hours a day), had admitted that he received calls about some proposalsbut he said that it should be the Interinstitutional Committee, of which Vicente Cuéllar is responsible, that is negotiating.

“(The government proposal) has reached us as it has reached the whole worldit was a public proposal made by the minister (María Nela) Prada through the local television media”, Calvo recounted about the negotiations and the supposed “line of dialogue” that had been established.

On Thursday, the first vice president of the Committee for Santa Cruz, Fernando Larach, revealed that there was an open channel of dialogue with the Governmentwithout specifying who was in the talks, but at the same time stated that “it had been frozen by the attitude of some ministers”.

While the governor Luis Fernando Camacho, said he was aware of the existence of that “line”, but not the proposals they made and who negotiated. He added that he was already going to know the points of those supposed dialogues.

“CI know that there has been a dialogue channel and I know that it has run out, but I don’t know what the parameters would be,” Camacho said before meeting with members of the Interinstitutional Committee on Friday night. While before, at the beginning of the week, he ruled that no one can be negotiating with their backs to the people’s mandate, which ordered a census in 2023 and that in order to start the dialogue, Decree 4760 must be repealed, because it sets a date of 2024.

Until now, the only authority that referred to the “dialogue channel” It was the mayor, Johnny Fernández, who earlier in the week said that he had found out that a “dialogue channel” would be opened and that agreements could be reached in these days. The mayor was singled out as one of the Government’s allies.