“In all departments, union members took out to sell, transportation circulated, workers got to their work centers…, a total failure,” the President of District Eight in the Santa Cruz neighborhood known as Plan Tres Mil, David Villarroel, said.
With the backdrop of vehicles that ran in front of busy shopping centers, Villarroel insisted in an interview with the channel Bolivia TV, in which nobody believes in Camacho, with civic Rómulo Calvo, whom nobody follows in the country.
The force measure imposed on October 22 in Santa Cruz Department, in many cases through force, already inflicted losses on the country worth nearly 1 billion dollars.
However, despite aggressiveness and pressures from paramilitary groups, following Camacho’s and Calvo’s orders with their blockades, there are increasingly more areas where the people return to their daily life and work.
From Oruro, the Department’s Civic Committee’s President, Cecilio Pérez, ruled out that the organization will participate in a strike supporting the measures of force that the Governor of Santa Cruz was promoting.
Bolivia’s Confederation of Drivers Unions, meanwhile, asked the national government to respect the right to work in the entire transportation system and urged the Governor’s office and the pro-Santa Cruz Civic Committee to lift the strike.
The confederation’s executive secretary, Lucio Gómez, warned that the conflict generated from the eastern city cannot be tolerated any longer because it already caused remarkable losses in that strategic sector of the national economy.
Camacho and those who followed him in the 2019 coup have insisted on refusing to accept dialogue, evidence that the Population and Housing Census is only an excuse, and that its true objective is to destabilize President Arce’s government.
That is why social and union movements and native indigenous peasant organizations are still on the alert and determined to prevent a new fracture of the constitutional order.
Taken from Orbe
By Jorge Petinaud Martínez, Chief Correspondent/La Paz
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