We encourage the willingness of the parties to ensure constructive exchanges and good-faith discussions that will allow reaching sustainable agreements based on consensus, said this organization in a message published on its profile on the social network Twitter.
President Luis Arce’s government and the Inter-Agency Committee, which advocates an indefinite strike in the department of Santa Cruz, started talks the day before to reach an agreement on the census.
The national authorities proposed to carry out this process in April 2024 and to redistribute the funds to all regions based on the preliminary results in October of the same year.
The committee called for the exercise to be conducted in 2023, and after a pause during which it unified its position with other opposition Pro Santa Cruz Civic Committee leaders, Gov. Luis Fernando Camacho called off talks.
That day, the Sunday newspaper La Época warned that the Santa Cruz power groups’ strike and their refusal to engage in dialogue were aimed at shortening Arce’s mandate.
What is underway is a new coup d’état, although the disruption to democracy takes a different form than in November 2019, when former President Evo Morales was ousted, the slam/emanario affirms in its editorial.