Representatives of the so-called ‘civic movement’ of Bolivia have threatened this Saturday to call a «civic» strike throughout the national territory if the Government does not set a date for the completion of the census, since they consider that it is a lack of political will and not technical difficulties as defended by Luis Arce.
«Give a clear message to the Government: If it does not find a solution, if it continues with this repressive attitude, of seeking violence, of taking this problem to the streets, confronting us among Bolivians, on Monday we are going to go into a national civic strike throughout the Bolivian territory», warned Adrián Ávila, president of the movement in Tarija, a city in the south of the country.
The representative pointed out that the citizens «have been patient» and that this is not a whim of a few, but a right of all Bolivians, for which reason the census should be carried out «as soon as possible». In addition, he defended that the intention of the demonstrators is not to destabilize the Government, as the President has argued during the last weeks.
This Saturday has begun the meeting to set the date of the population and housing census in the Bolivian province of Santa Cruz, origin of the «civic» strike called by the opposition against the Government of Luis Arce.
For weeks, the Executive has insisted on the need to meet technical criteria to determine the date of the registry, however, the protesters accuse it of wanting to delay it.
The so-called ‘civic movement’ of Bolivia started last October 22 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 aid among the regions of the country.
The protests are concentrated in the city of Santa Cruz, where the opposition to Luis Arce has greater weight and is the economic engine of the country, where one person has lost his life during the mobilizations.
