They direct a national summit for the 2023 census and ask the Government to clarify who is the spokesperson for the INE

The Interinstitutional Committee of Santa Cruz creates alliances with authorities from other departments to organize a national summit that reinforces the fight for the 2023 census and avoid postponing it until 2024, according to the rector of the Gabriel René Moreno Autonomous University (Uagrm), Vicente Cuéllar.

On the other hand, from the entity formed in the department of Cruceñi they lamented the “incomplete” information sent in slides by the Ministry of Planning on the schedule of the national survey and observed the lack of a single spokesperson of the National Institute of Statistics (INE).

“The generation of collective consciousness is very positive because in the measures that we we are involving other actors representing other departmentssurely in this way the government will give us more attention to a proposal that was born in the university,” said the rector in an interview with the program ‘Qué Semana’ on EL DEBER Radio.

The highest authority of the Santa Cruz public university said that it is time for the protests to stop being regional and held meetings with Mayor Iván Arias from La Paz.

He clarified that it will be necessary to invite the President of the State, Luis Arce, because they don’t know who to turn to by the multiple INE spokespersons who appeared after the medical discharge of director Humberto Arandia.

In June, there was a string of resignations. First Arandia, whose resignation was rejected by President Arce. Then the Minister of Planning, Gabriela Mendoza, who was not seen giving explanations.

From that date, the information from the INE and the slowness with which the census activities progressed were questioned more strongly until the Government admitted delays and justified its postponement with the alleged request of the Council of Autonomies.

After the formation of technical groups, in August, in charge of the Government and the promise to send the census advances, Santa Cruz finally received the “repeated” information since it was the same that was presented at the meeting on August 15.

“The information that reached us is embarrassing because it is the slide that they presented to us on August 15, they even criticized us for our summary because it was supposedly insufficient. In the slides they do not show us the percentage of progress of the activities and the progress of the cartographic update is little,” Cuéllar claimed.

Preparations for the council

After two strikes and the third summit in Santa Cruz, the determination to organize a council for September 30 requires the formation of commissions.

“It is followed by the formation of the commission that will organize the council and there will be subcommissions because we must socialize the council to guarantee majority participation to give legitimacy to any measure,” explained the rector of the Uagrm.

While on September 12, the Ministry of Planning was required to install technical tables to adjust the date of the national survey by consensus.