Bolivia seeks agreement on census at multinational meeting

The state media network confirmed that the appointment set by President Luis Arce, is attended by the highest provincial authorities in La Paz, Pando, Chuquisaca, Beni, Potosi, Cochabamba, Tarija and Oruro, who will intervene in the debate based in Avant. the hotel.

The Governor of Santa Cruz, Luis Fernando Camacho, initially announced on television that he would attend, but later retracted and became the only absent guest among his colleagues again.

Figures from the Majority Movement for Socialism – Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples (MAS-IPSP) and the opposition agreed in their criticism of Camacho because he predicted he would promote the indefinite strike in Santa Cruz, which enters Friday this seventh week. day.

According to official sources, each day this form of protest takes place represents a cost of 36-40 million dollars for the territory of Santa Cruz and the country.

In connection with the mayors, in addition to the mayors of the ten major cities of Bolivia, they attended the municipalities of San Pedro, in Pando, and Guayaramerin, in Beni.

Gabriela Alcon, Deputy Minister of Communications, told Cochabamba TV that 364 invitations had been sent to the leaders who will participate in the forum.

Presidential spokesman Jorge Richter said earlier that about 400 people are expected to attend and that they all have the right to speak because the meeting is designed “on the basis that we can all express our views”.

Alvaro Ruiz, Deputy Minister of Autonomy, explained that the presidents of state universities, Chaco Regional Autonomy and Indigenous Peasant Autonomy will also be present.

But he made it clear that on this occasion social organizations and municipal government advisers would not participate.

The meeting in search of the “white smoke” that stops the millionaire’s losses due to the strike comes at a time when hundreds of taxi and motorcycle drivers have been stationed at the doors of various companies in the municipality of Santa Cruz Buarnes to prevent them. than to continue to work.

“The little we earn is no longer enough, and from there we have already analyzed it: business cannot get richer with a supposed strike and the poor can get poorer,” warned a motorist in an interview with the state channel Bolivia TV. .

Faced with this situation, the leaders of large industry and exporters reacted with criticism of the millionaire losses due to the embargo.

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