November 9, 2022, 17:55 PM
November 9, 2022, 17:55 PM
The intercultural group that was recorded on Friday reviewing “the minister sister” who was “firm” (without specifying why) has withdrawn from Buena Vista, but after a confrontation with residents of this northern municipality. That video, which was recorded by a member of the intercultural groups, showed rows of three and four people, men and women, with their faces covered by masks or scarves.
In addition, while they sang “Salve oh Patria”, they exhibited improvised shields made of turriles, sticks and handmade waves to throw stones. This group of people has been in Buena Vista since October 30. camped there after confront residents of San Carlos that they blocked asking for the census to be carried out in 2023.
And, before facing the sancarleños, andThis same group carried out sporadic blockades in Yapacaní as part of the MAS siege of Santa Cruz.. A measure adopted in the four interdepartmental routes, which was announced by Franklin Vargas, executive of the Single Federation of Peasant Workers, and Rolando Borda, executive of the Departmental Workers Central.
In principle, when it became known that this group of intercultural people left El Sujal, a community in the municipality of San Carlos, on October 30, their objective was to reach the capital of Santa Cruz to request the resignation of Governor Luis Fernando Camacho.
The caravan that left there, accompanied by two Nissan Condor trucks, dozens of motorcycles and police custody, did not reach the capital of Santa Cruz and stayed for nine days. at the entrance to Buena Vista, in the area of the New Circunvalación.
A town hall was held yesterday in this place. Elías Tejerina, general secretary of the Departmental Federation of Intercultural People of Santa Cruz, interviewed by Radio Dinámica Popular de Buena Vista, said that the meeting determined not to allow any more “civic dictatorship” and accused residents of the provinces of consuming “hallucinogenics” that they installed blocking points in favor of the 2023 census and to the leadership that raises this request, to “provide them with vice.”
Participated in the council the municipal authorities of Buena Vista, San Carlos, Yapacaní and Santa Rosa del Sara, from the MAS line, as Assemblyman Clemente Ramos informed Radio Dinámica Popular. He said that the determination was to keep a vigil until a definitive date for the census is resolved and to clear the blockage points.
The residents of Buenavista, upon learning of the plans for this sector, decided to massify the blocking point of the route, near a fuel service station. Over there, from 20:00, intense clashes were experienced that lasted more than two hours.
The tensest moments were the first thirty minutes when firecrackers exploded, even very close to the fuel pump. After that, the Police arrived at the scene to avoid an escalation in the conflict and lament tragedies, according to what the departmental commander of the Police, Jhonny Omar Chávez, reported this Friday morning at a press conference in the capital of Santa Cruz.
Isaías Sandoval, opposition councilor from Buena Vista, in contact with EL DEBER, observed the work of the uniformed men. From his point of view the olive green institution protected the intercultural while launching tear gas “right and left” against the population.
“If (the Police) had wanted to avoid the conflictwould not have allowed the intercultural people to get close to where the Buenavistas were, in addition to they began to fire tear gas left and right and more at the Buenavistas than at the othersThat is why people are annoyed by this type of action and for me, in particular, the actions of the police leave much to be desired,” said Sandoval.
The councilman confirmed that after this act of violence and being overwhelmed by the Buenavistas, intercultural left the point where they had been settled for nine days and they “returned peace” to the municipality.
“The vast majority were not from here and they have already returned to their places, although there was also a group from here that includes some public officials and social sectors, but there are no people in the place”he remarked.
Meanwhile, the people who abide by the indefinite strike demanding that the census be carried out in 2023 maintain two locking points: one, at the height of the entrance to the urban center of Buena Vista and another La Arboleda. In this way, the route that connects Santa Cruz with Cochabamba is cut off.
For the government spokesman, Jorge Richter, the confrontation between the intercultural and the inhabitants of Buena Vista was an action planned by those leading the request that the census be carried out in 2023 that they have even “hired criminal groups” to generate violence against those who do not agree with the strike.
Richter interpreted that after the announcement by civic leader Rómulo Calvo and the vice-chancellor of the Autonomous University Gabriel René Moreno (Uagrm), Reinerio Vargas, of radicalize measures, the confrontation in Buena Vista took place.
“Whoever is thinking and planning is the owner of intellectual responsibility. Make contact with these criminal groups that, by instigating these groups, is taking them, hiring them, sponsoring them, so that they move to the place. That means there are resources for criminal logistics and that means there are thoughtful people behind it,” he said.
