“The unionists came from all departments to sell, the transportation ran, the worker reached his source of employment… a resounding failure,” said David Villarroel, President of District Eight in the Santa Cruz neighborhood, known as Plan Tres Mil.
Against a backdrop of vehicles moving in front of crowded malls, Villarroel, in an interview with Bolivian TV station, insisted that no one believes Camacho, the bourgeois Rómulo Calvo, or follows them nationwide.
The violent measures taken in Santa Cruz department since October 22, in many cases violently, have already cost the country almost a billion dollars in losses.
However, despite the aggression and pressure of the paramilitary groups commanded by Camacho and Calvo with their blockades, there are more areas every day where the population is returning to their daily activities.
From Oruro, the president of the department’s civic committee, Cecilio Pérez, denied that this organization was taking part in a strike in support of the vigorous measures promoted by the governor of Santa Cruz.
The Bolivian Drivers’ Union Federation, meanwhile, demanded that the national government enforce the right to work of the entire public transport system and called on the government and the Santa Cruz Citizens’ Committee to call off the strike.
The executive secretary of this union structure, Lucio Gómez, warned that the conflict emanating from the eastern capital could no longer be tolerated as it had already inflicted significant losses on this strategic sector of the national economy.
That Camacho and his accomplices in conducting the 2019 coup insist on refusing dialogue shows that the census is just a smokescreen and that their real goal is to destabilize President Arce’s government.
Therefore, the social movements, trade unions and the original indigenous peasant organizations remain in a state of emergency and are determined to prevent a new breach of the constitutional order.
(Taken from Orb Weekly)