October 28, 2022, 7:35 AM
October 28, 2022, 7:35 AM
The appointment is set for 8:00 this Friday morning. After a week of mobilizations and open confrontations, andThe Government convenes a massive meeting to find a way out of the tension that the country is experiencing for a date for the completion of the Population and Housing Census.
The proposal for the meeting stems from the meeting held by the government delegation with various social sectors in Santa Cruz on Monday. This second dialogue table was organized after the failure of the negotiation with the Interinstitutional Committee for the Promotion of the 2023 Censuson Saturday.
Below, we summarize the things you should know about this national meeting to which more than 300 mayors, governors, rectors of public universities and indigenous authorities have committed their attendance:
Summoned by the national government. The appointment is at 8:00 on Friday the 27th, at the Hotel Avanti in the capital of Cochabamba.
The only item on the agenda is the completion of the Population and Housing Census. The proposal of the Interinstitutional Committee for the Promotion of the 2023 Census is that the great survey be carried out in 2023, which is what the council has requested on September 30.
While the Government defined, through Supreme Decree 4760, that it be carried out until May or June 2024. The Vice Minister of Communication, Gabriela Alcón, stated that the date of the census is open and that a complementary rule to Supreme Decree 4760 can be developed In the same way, he indicated that there is the Government’s offer to apply the redistribution of resources as of October 2024.
Other options, such as the one expressed by the mayor of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Jhonny Fernández, envision an intermediate solution and defend the census in December 2023.
The mayors and governors of the country, authorities of the Peasant Native Indigenous Autonomies, authorities of the Autonomous Regions of Chaco and also those of the public university system. The Government invited 364 authorities. More than 90% have already confirmed their presence.
4.- Santa Cruz representation
Representing Santa Cruz will be the rector of the Gabriel René Moreno Autonomous University (Uagrm), Vicente Cuéllar, who leads the Inter-institutional Committee. Together with him, José Luis Santisteban, Jorge Akamine and Melvy Vargas are in Cochabamba to “transmit the council’s mandate.”
The mayor of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Jhonny Fernández, will also participate in the meeting.
Minister Eduardo del Castillo announced that four security rings will be formed to protect the meeting.
The state news agency ABI noted that 130 police, patrols and motorcycles will guard four blocks around the Avanti hotel.
On the other hand, heThe Church of Santa Cruz has asked for sincere dialogue and leave aside “their personal, partisan or sectoral interests, and that they demonstrate their capacity for service by fulfilling their responsibility as authorities that are owed to the entire people.”
