The Bolivian Civic Committee has again rejected the proposal of the Government of Luis Arce to install technical tables to set the date on which the Census will be held, so the strike will remain active in the eighth day of protests in Santa Cruz.
The president of the Civic Committee, Rómulo Calvo, stated after the meeting held this Friday in the city of Cochabamba, in the center of the country, that the Government «continues to underestimate the sacrifice of a population that is demanding a right».
«They have wanted to silence the voice of a cabildo, the voice of a million and a half people, who asked for a date, a date that we have told the Bolivian people, it is not negotiated.» «The Government has played deaf; it has shown us that it has no will to provide a solution», he said in statements reported by the Santa Cruz newspaper ‘El Deber’.
The representative has maintained that what the Executive has put on the table does not respond to what was determined by the Cabildo, which indicates that the Census must be carried out in 2023.
The so-called «civic movement» of Bolivia started last Saturday an indefinite national strike to demand the celebration of the Census in 2023, instead of 2024 as proposed by the Bolivian Government, since this registry conditions the distribution of registrations among the regions of the country.
The protests are concentrated in the city of Santa Cruz, where the opposition to Luis Arce has the greatest weight and is the economic engine of the country, where one person has lost his life during the mobilizations.
