The IAVA high school student union dedicated an ironic message to the former director of Coexistence and Citizen Security, santiago gonzalezwho resigned this Thursday after acknowledge that he was treated at the Police Hospital.
“We are going to miss you Santiago”, reads the union’s Twitter account. In April, students and teachers occupied the high school due to the discussion with the education authorities regarding the union hall and the separation of the position and the withholding of the salary of the director, Leonardo Ruidíaz.
Secondary wanted to build a ramp at the entrance where does the union hall work from high school Ruidíaz refused to evict the students before Tourism Week.
We will miss you Santiago ? https://t.co/BQLgIy3ji6
— Iava Student Guild (@gremio_iava) May 11, 2023
Like in many other occupations, González went to evict the IAVA students on April 13, taking refuge in the law of urgent consideration that prohibits the occupation of public places. When the ex-hierarch handed over the eviction orderhe and the spokesman for the students – who would later become known: Geronimo SenaThey staged a tense encounter.
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Santiago Gónzalez and Gerónimo Sena in the occupation of the high school
-How is? Did you come because of this conflict situation? asked the student.
“No, normally…” González said.
—Ah, no, because the last time he did not come.
—Sometimes I come and sometimes I don’t. When I can.
“When the cameras are on,” Sena replied.
“Don’t be a fighter… come on, let’s go,” closed the former director of Coexistence and Citizen Security.
The next day, González returned to the IAVA, but this time to evict the teachers that they had taken the measure for the same reason as the students: dismissal from office and withholding of Ruidíaz’s salary.
The situation in VAT
The teachers went on strike until April 20 so that the exam period could pass normally. That day the students went to occupy the high school, but they couldn’t get in. They needed the keys that the inspectors from the General Directorate of Secondary Education (DGES), who were in charge of the high school until a new interim director was appointed.
The general director of Secondary, Jenifer Cherro, said that although that Thursday the students did not occupy the center, they did not allow different people to enter, so the police had to be called to remove them. “The company that was going to repair the elevator today the students did not allow him to enter. But that will be fixed“, he claimed.
This determination generated a new disagreement between the IAVA students, who were on the steps, and Santiago González, who again went to the place together with the Police to evict the students. The students reproached González that they They were not occupying but demonstrating so I could not evict them from the place.
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Santiago Gónzalez, Gerónimo Sena, another student and a police officer during the occupation of the high school on April 13
Weeks later, this Monday, May 8, the IAVA student union manifested itself again, without occupying. The students weren dressed in black, to represent “mourning” who is experiencing education, explained to Underlined, Gerónimo Sena. They performed a “sea of banks”: they removed the empty benches to the corridors, an action that did not suspend classes but did distort normal functioning.
The resignation of Santiago González
In the first days of May, the radio M24 disclosed two medication tickets and a medical record number which suggested that the then chief had been treated at the Police Hospital. Given the disclosure of this information, the Ministry of the Interior ordered an investigation that sought to determine if González had withdrawn medications from the Police Hospital pharmacy.
After an analysis, the portfolio resolved thate no medicines had been issued in the hospital pharmacy with the certificate of the Director of Security and Citizen Coexistence.
However, this Tuesday, the week after what M24 reported, after the insistence of the press, González acknowledged that received care at the Police Hospitalalthough he said that That is not “illegal” because he was only given an injection “once” for a back pain.
This Thursday he sent a letter to President Luis Lacalle Pou where he announced his resignation. “I I don’t have any rights to put you that a person you trust is ethically questioned, for which I am stepping aside,” he wrote to the president.
