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The revelation of the case of university leader Max Mendoza led to other complaints against other university leaders who have not graduated in 40 years and direct the so-called local university federations (FUL).
Mendoza is the maximum leader of the university students of Bolivia and as a representative of that sector he is the national secretary of the Executive Committee of the Bolivian University (CEUB) and for that position he earns almost 22,000 Bolivians.
In 33 years of “university” —now he is 52 years old—, the leader failed to pass the second semester of the Agronomy degree.
Mendoza’s case outraged public opinion and the Movement for Socialism (MAS), a party that supported him.
The MAS senator, William Tórrez, described the university leader as a “dinosaur” because he has remained at the San Simón de Cochabamba University for more than three decades and does not give new student leadership an opportunity.
“We hope that the Comptroller will rule, to find out what the situation is, if it is evident, if there are 22,000 Bolivians as part of the CEUB (…). They are called dinosaurs not because they are efficient, but because they cannot get their titles and the coffers are growing from the university,” said Torrez.
He also requested the intervention of the Public Ministry to investigate whether Mendoza committed crimes.
To the denunciations of the privileged treatment of the university leader and political operator of the former president Evo Morales, other complaints arose against university leaders who manage the so-called FUL or the centers for career students, faculties and university cafeterias.
One of those denounced is Madekadel Vaca, executive secretary of the FUL at the public university of Beni, who has been a university student for more than 20 years, entered three careers but has not graduated in any and would have the support of the rector Jesús Tito Eguez.
The complaint was made by the university leader who was disqualified from applying to the FUL, Carlos Alberto Nogales, on the PAT network.
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“The rector himself tells me (in a meeting) that I should step aside, but I told him no and he continued with the intention of not getting off,” he said. He said that the leader Mendoza, who would be a “friend” of the rector of the Autonomous University of Beni (UAB), was also present at that meeting.
Supposedly behind these pressures would be the former president and head of the MAS, Evo Morales.
The name of the university leader of the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA) Álvaro Quelali also jumped on social networks, who after 20 years has not managed to graduate and has control of the university leadership.
In statements registered by RTP, the aforementioned raised “structural changes” regarding the permanence of leaders in the universities and said that he does not know how long Mendoza remains as leader of the CEUB.
Mendoza’s case jumped after the deaths that occurred in Potosí after the tear gas attack that led to a human avalanche in a university assembly.
Among the leaders arrested for the serious incident are leaders who remain up to 20 years in that house of higher studies.
The president of the electoral committee, Ariel QM, is 40 years old while Milton FA (35 years old) worked as financial administrative director (DAF) of the Departmental Legislative Assembly of Potosí with the support of MAS, the party that controls that legislative entity.
He is professional? Although the Police presented him with the alias “El Licen”, the data collected by local media in Potosí shows that he does not have a university degree.
