Bolivian president to set up an international round table to dismantle protests against him

The Bolivian Government has announced this Wednesday the installation of a technical table with representatives of international organizations to define the date of the Census and thus quell the protests that are taking place in the city of Santa Cruz.

After failing to reach a final agreement with the Inter-Institutional Committee of Santa Cruz, the Bolivian Minister of Planning, Sergio Cusicanqui, in a joint conference with the presidential spokesman, Jorge Richter, announced the formation of a technical table to advance the census process.

“The national Government, in the eagerness to advance in the census process (…) is going to install on Friday (November 4) the technical commission which will be in charge of working on the definitive date of the day of the census, and which will have the presence of representatives of international organizations,” detailed Cusicanqui in declarations gathered by ‘Ahora el Pueblo’.

This announcement comes shortly after the Executive revealed that on Tuesday night, the Government and the Santa Cruz Committee had reached a pre-agreement which was rejected by the latter in less than 24 hours, according to the Bolivian Information Agency (ABI).

On Saturday, October 29, Bolivia’s “civic movement” started an indefinite national strike to demand the holding of the Census in 2023 instead of 2024 as proposed by the Bolivian Government since this registration conditions the distribution of aid among the country’s regions.

The protests are concentrated in the city of Santa Cruz, where the opposition to Luis Arce has the greatest weight and is the country’s economic engine, where one person has lost his life during the mobilizations.

With information from Gaceta