Re: South America
Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2022 3:20 pm
AT THE REQUEST OF FORMER SOUTH AMERICAN PRESIDENTS AND POLITICIANS
TOWARDS A POSSIBLE RELAUNCH OF UNASUR?
15 Nov 2022 , 3:29 pm .
The possible relaunch of Unasur would imply a necessary debate in which Venezuela will participate (Photo: File)
Seven former Latin American presidents accompanied by former foreign ministers, former ministers, former parliamentarians, current congressmen, intellectuals, directors of international organizations and former ambassadors have sent a letter to 12 presidents of the region to push them to relaunch the Union of South American Nations (Unasur).
However, one of the letters, precisely the one that reached the hands of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro , was the one that had the most notoriety, due to the meaning of the context and the alleged diplomatic isolation against Venezuela in recent years, which has been deteriorating.
Venezuela was, together with Brazil and Argentina, the troika that organized the birth of the integrationist entity in 2008.
The text is signed by seven former presidents: the Chilean Michelle Bachelet; the Ecuadorian Rafael Correa; the Argentine Eduardo Duhalde; the Chilean Ricardo Lagos; the Uruguayan José Mujica; the Brazilian Dilma Rousseff; and the Colombian Ernesto Samper, who, together with more than 50 signatories, urge President Maduro to promote "an effective space for South American consultation", which allows for the "new transformative impulse" of the region to be addressed after the political changes in Chile, Colombia and Brazil, refers RT .
This letter exposes the fundamental points for the change in the international context, for the current crises and those that await the planet, in terms of geopolitical changes. Unasur, they point out, could propose a joint policy as a regional bloc in the face of these new realities.
"The potential of South America can only materialize to the extent that the countries that make it up create a space that allows them to agree, identify common projects and deploy joint initiatives," they point out.
However, the relaunch of the multilateral entity has several flats. The first of these is that Unasur, they say, is not officially extinct, since the "withdrawal" of seven countries from said body, at the discretion of their right-wing executive governments, was carried out without complying with the essential steps for that purpose. .
"In short, Unasur still exists and is the best platform to reconstitute a space for integration in South America," the letter reads. For the signatories, the attempt to replace the bloc with the so-called Forum for the Progress of South America (Prosur) in 2019, "did not go beyond being an improvised and precarious undertaking, with zero operational capacities", and it is currently " an empty set" and "a phantom institution".
Secondly, the "new Unasur" would require substantial changes in its operation, based on the "ideological" determinism of the governments that comprise it, which must articulate and maintain their institutionality despite these divergences. Unasur must relaunch itself by reforming its decision-making architecture, leaving behind the consensus policy to favor the formula of majorities of various types according to the type of discussion.
Secondly, and thirdly, they consider that Unasur will be a space to strengthen the Confederation of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac), granting a new type of dynamism to continental integration and institutionality through differentiated but complementary blocks.
CELAC could be constituted "in the privileged space to define a common position for the region" on multilateral issues such as: climate change, energy transition, trade, investment, international financing, human rights, disarmament, peace and security, migration, drug trafficking and crime organized. "Integration is more necessary today than ever" and "a significant effort in this direction would allow a virtuous circle to be nurtured that would strengthen multilateral bodies and contribute to a greater good that is currently in danger: peace," they add.
ALL ROADS LEAD TO CARACAS
This document, which has this group of former Social Democratic presidents at the forefront, could perhaps be understood as a glossary of possibly learned lessons and could be based on reflections that, as they point out, originate from a framework of "lost opportunities". that they prefer not to mention in their eagerness to look ahead.
Both Venezuela and President Nicolás Maduro are an inevitable point in this discussion, not only because it is a country geographically integrated into the South American subregion. The role of promoters and founders gives Venezuela special authority to debate the idea of a relaunch.
The former headquarters of Unasur on the outskirts of Quito, the "Néstor Kirchner" building, was dismantled by Lenín Moreno, who also removed the statue of the remembered president of Argentina (Photo: Agencies)
But the Venezuelan case is much more complex. The oil country, today blocked, was precisely the turning point in international relations on a continental scale, since the alleged isolation of Venezuela orchestrated by the United States greatly disfigured the foreign policy of several countries.
Let us remember that since 2015, with the declaration of Venezuela as an "unusual and extraordinary threat" to the security of the United States, then through the packages of coercive and unilateral measures of the Trump Administration against Caracas, the relationship between several countries with Venezuela, but also a "common sense" was formed among the right-wing governments to "withdraw" from the entities that have been promoted by the Venezuelan government.
This is how the wave of debacle and changes of government in several countries that were formerly members of the "progressive cycle" generated a turn that not only dragged Unasur, but also Celac.
The authorship of these situations falls on Washington from the exercise of its power to recover its "natural space of influence." Although Venezuela formalized its withdrawal from the Organization of American States (OAS), the Americans raised the ante to promote not only the breakdown of the country's relations. They promoted a systemic breakdown of multilateral relations in many dimensions.
The scope of the rupture of the integration initiatives (Unasur and Celac) and that had Caracas as a critical node, evolved into worse categories, when in 2019 Washington proclaimed Juan Guaidó as "interim president" of Venezuela, placing the countries in a Manichean formula to recognize Guaidó or Maduro; maintain or dispense with diplomatic relations with the only real government in Caracas, or align or misalign with the lane imposed by the State Department.
Caracas is not Rome, but speaking of geopolitics in the subcontinent, it is a place where everything comes together, which is inexorable, since it is impossible to build a new Unasur without it, and its mere presence imposes a new tone on the result.
Venezuela continues to be a target country for Washington, and for the Americans it continues to be an inexorable destination of its policy.
THE OPPORTUNITY NOT TO BE MISSED
The current political picture is clearly favorable for the relaunch of Unasur. However, the underlying political architecture must be resolved. It consists of understanding the opportunity to develop a bloc policy, in the face of the forcefulness of planetary change.
The multicentric shape that the planet is acquiring has found the region extremely divided and with several countries subject to the status of vassals of the United States. Others, on the other hand, have become politically pendular, plunged into an alternation that implies modest progressive advances and brutal neoliberal setbacks.
The serious problem of the social democratic governments, which prefer to establish themselves in "liberal democracy", has been that of interpreting the political time of their countries and of the world, from the narrow margins of their rigged institutions so that nothing really changes, which make it impossible to real political revolution and who may perish in the next presidential elections just around the corner.
In foreign policy, it implies the development of a synergy with no meaning, with little understanding of the new forces of gravity that are disfiguring the world as we know it and which imply a short projection and no strategic vision.
This is a point to reflect on the so-called (and debatable) second Latin American progressive cycle, where its distinctions are open in the face of the so frequently denounced by Gabriel Boric "troika of evil", as John Bolton called Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua. The belief in moving deep from restraint and Washington's approval does not appear as a red flag in the letter.
South America will hardly be able to be a truly autonomous block until its governments acquire the category of substantive political change, to the point of being able to advance in their foreign agendas with freedom and the ability to maneuver to think about the region from the needs and aspirations of the region.
Right now that integration blocks in Eurasia and Africa are accelerating, they are several steps ahead compared to South America. The level of progress in these countries is not determined by the ideological affiliations of their governments. If we analyze in depth, the "left and right" discussions have no footing in those regions of the world. Their mutual interest is determined by the understanding and assimilation of their loss of ties and aspirations for their own future, to maintain their relations as they exist today with the Anglo-Western world.
The loss of credibility of the United States, the rejection of the incessant looting, the weariness of interference, the intolerance of wars and the exhaustion of the heavy burden of Atlantic hegemony have accelerated this planetary change, which is and will be very difficult. But these blocs forming on the other side of the world are unified by a sense of urgency. Unite or be overwhelmed. Everything that follows it, like the big projects of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative, are really incidental concretions. The underlying question is another.
Does this vision exist for the South American subcontinent? Only Venezuela has those cardinal points and for this reason, for a long time, it has created a long bridge to the Eurasian world, together with Nicaragua and Cuba, in the absence of other less flimsy bridges in closer instances.
The possible relaunch of Unasur would imply a necessary debate in which Venezuela will participate. In May of this year, President Maduro asserted the resurgence of said body as a political commitment, precisely because of the political changes he envisioned in Colombia and Brazil. Now the cards are being dealt.
https://misionverdad.com/globalistan/ha ... -de-unasur
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Argentina Sees 88 Pct Year-on-Year Inflation in October
A woman shops at a supermarket, in the city of Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, on April 13, 2022. | Photo: Xinhua/Martin Zabala
Published 15 November 2022
Argentina registered 88 percent year-on-year inflation in October, with prices rising 6.3 percent for an accumulated 76.6 percent spike in prices so far this year, the National Statistics and Census Institute (INDEC) said Tuesday.
The goods and services that saw the biggest jump in price, year over year, were "clothing and footwear," with a 121.5 percent increase; "restaurants and hotels," with a 105.2 percent rise; and "food and non-alcoholic beverages," with a 91.6 percent increase, the INDEC said.
"Healthcare" costs rose 78.6 percent, while "transportation" climbed 77.9 percent and "education" 76 percent.
Accumulated annual inflation (since January) saw the price of "clothing and footwear" rise 103.1 percent, followed by "restaurants and hotels" by 84.6 percent, and "food and non-alcoholic beverages" by 80 percent.
Over the past 12 months, prices of goods in Argentina rose 91.8 percent and those of services 78.4 percent.
Argentina's government has said fighting inflation is one of its main economic policy goals.
According to the Central Bank of Argentina's latest market expectations survey, inflation could hit three digits toward the end of the current year to reach 100 percent.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Arg ... -0014.html
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Peru: Congress Processes Corruption Complaint Against Castillo
Peruvian President Pedro Castillo, 2022. | Photo: Twitter/ @almayadeen_es
Published 17 November 2022
The Peruvian president considers that this complaint represents the beginning of a new type of coup d'état.
On Wednesday, Peruvian Parliament's Subcommittee on Constitutional Accusations admitted for processing the constitutional complaint that the Prosecutor's Office filed against President Pedro Castillo.
The decision to admit the complaint for "crimes of criminal organization, influence peddling, and collusion" was adopted with thirteen votes in favor and eight votes against.
The complaint entered an evidentiary stage in which the accused can be summoned to exercise his defense before the working group issues a final report. Subsequently, the complaint could go to the Permanent Commission as a prelude to the vote in the plenary session of Congress.
Castillo considers this complaint represents the beginning of a "new type of coup d'état" since the Peruvian Constitution establishes that the president of the republic can only be accused of four specific cases, among which are treason against the country or impeding elections.
The tweet reads, "Defying the legal and constitutional order, the right wing approved the Qualification Report of the Constitutional Complaint 307 against Pedro Castillo. The right wing does not realize that its aggressiveness leads to its self-destruction."
Crimes of corruption or common crimes, however, are not among the constitutional causes to judge the president.
A different perspective is maintained by Attorney General Patricia Benavides who defends the complaint arguing article 30 of the United Nations Convention against Corruption.
Once the process is approved, the complaint will go through a multi-stage process, which could take about three months to reach the plenary session, if it proceeds.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Per ... -0001.html
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President of Bolivia’s Senate Calls for Justice for Crimes in Santa Cruz
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
President of the Bolivian Senate, Andrónico Rodríguez. Photo: File.
The strike in Santa Cruz has caused estimated losses in the vicinity of $900 million.
This Monday, November 11, President of the Bolivian Chamber of Senators Andrónico Rodríguez requested that the crimes committed during the strike in Santa Cruz be investigated.
Through his Twitter account, Rodríguez referred to the indefinite strike that was called in Santa Cruz under the pretext that the population and housing census was postponed until 2024.
The Bolivian legislator released audiovisual material and asserted that, with these images, it was evident that the strike – proposed by the right-wing – was not endorsed by the people.
“These images are a clear sign that the famous and great town hall at the feet of Christ is not the scene of horizontal decisions of the people with the people,” he tweeted, “but of impositions promoted by particular and petty interests.”
Furthermore, Rodríguez stated that the strike generated heavy human and economic losses in addition to violating the fundamental rights of the citizens of Santa Cruz.
According to a report by Prensa Latina, the strike caused losses estimated at nearly $900 million during its 25-day duration.
Rodríguez directly blamed Governor Luis Fernando Camacho, who is also known for his participation in the 2019 coup against Evo Morales, for the recent events in Santa Cruz.
“Mr. Luis Fernando Camacho, being a departmental authority, instead of working for his people,” Rodríguez stated, “played with the conscience, work, economy, and health of the people of Santa Cruz.”
Last Saturday, November 12, Bolivian President Luis Arce announced that the population and housing census will be carried out on March 23, 2024. The new redistribution of tax revenues based on the preliminary census results will be made in September of the same year, one month earlier than initially planned.
https://orinocotribune.com/president-of ... anta-cruz/
TOWARDS A POSSIBLE RELAUNCH OF UNASUR?
15 Nov 2022 , 3:29 pm .
The possible relaunch of Unasur would imply a necessary debate in which Venezuela will participate (Photo: File)
Seven former Latin American presidents accompanied by former foreign ministers, former ministers, former parliamentarians, current congressmen, intellectuals, directors of international organizations and former ambassadors have sent a letter to 12 presidents of the region to push them to relaunch the Union of South American Nations (Unasur).
However, one of the letters, precisely the one that reached the hands of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro , was the one that had the most notoriety, due to the meaning of the context and the alleged diplomatic isolation against Venezuela in recent years, which has been deteriorating.
Venezuela was, together with Brazil and Argentina, the troika that organized the birth of the integrationist entity in 2008.
The text is signed by seven former presidents: the Chilean Michelle Bachelet; the Ecuadorian Rafael Correa; the Argentine Eduardo Duhalde; the Chilean Ricardo Lagos; the Uruguayan José Mujica; the Brazilian Dilma Rousseff; and the Colombian Ernesto Samper, who, together with more than 50 signatories, urge President Maduro to promote "an effective space for South American consultation", which allows for the "new transformative impulse" of the region to be addressed after the political changes in Chile, Colombia and Brazil, refers RT .
This letter exposes the fundamental points for the change in the international context, for the current crises and those that await the planet, in terms of geopolitical changes. Unasur, they point out, could propose a joint policy as a regional bloc in the face of these new realities.
"The potential of South America can only materialize to the extent that the countries that make it up create a space that allows them to agree, identify common projects and deploy joint initiatives," they point out.
However, the relaunch of the multilateral entity has several flats. The first of these is that Unasur, they say, is not officially extinct, since the "withdrawal" of seven countries from said body, at the discretion of their right-wing executive governments, was carried out without complying with the essential steps for that purpose. .
"In short, Unasur still exists and is the best platform to reconstitute a space for integration in South America," the letter reads. For the signatories, the attempt to replace the bloc with the so-called Forum for the Progress of South America (Prosur) in 2019, "did not go beyond being an improvised and precarious undertaking, with zero operational capacities", and it is currently " an empty set" and "a phantom institution".
Secondly, the "new Unasur" would require substantial changes in its operation, based on the "ideological" determinism of the governments that comprise it, which must articulate and maintain their institutionality despite these divergences. Unasur must relaunch itself by reforming its decision-making architecture, leaving behind the consensus policy to favor the formula of majorities of various types according to the type of discussion.
Secondly, and thirdly, they consider that Unasur will be a space to strengthen the Confederation of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac), granting a new type of dynamism to continental integration and institutionality through differentiated but complementary blocks.
CELAC could be constituted "in the privileged space to define a common position for the region" on multilateral issues such as: climate change, energy transition, trade, investment, international financing, human rights, disarmament, peace and security, migration, drug trafficking and crime organized. "Integration is more necessary today than ever" and "a significant effort in this direction would allow a virtuous circle to be nurtured that would strengthen multilateral bodies and contribute to a greater good that is currently in danger: peace," they add.
ALL ROADS LEAD TO CARACAS
This document, which has this group of former Social Democratic presidents at the forefront, could perhaps be understood as a glossary of possibly learned lessons and could be based on reflections that, as they point out, originate from a framework of "lost opportunities". that they prefer not to mention in their eagerness to look ahead.
Both Venezuela and President Nicolás Maduro are an inevitable point in this discussion, not only because it is a country geographically integrated into the South American subregion. The role of promoters and founders gives Venezuela special authority to debate the idea of a relaunch.
The former headquarters of Unasur on the outskirts of Quito, the "Néstor Kirchner" building, was dismantled by Lenín Moreno, who also removed the statue of the remembered president of Argentina (Photo: Agencies)
But the Venezuelan case is much more complex. The oil country, today blocked, was precisely the turning point in international relations on a continental scale, since the alleged isolation of Venezuela orchestrated by the United States greatly disfigured the foreign policy of several countries.
Let us remember that since 2015, with the declaration of Venezuela as an "unusual and extraordinary threat" to the security of the United States, then through the packages of coercive and unilateral measures of the Trump Administration against Caracas, the relationship between several countries with Venezuela, but also a "common sense" was formed among the right-wing governments to "withdraw" from the entities that have been promoted by the Venezuelan government.
This is how the wave of debacle and changes of government in several countries that were formerly members of the "progressive cycle" generated a turn that not only dragged Unasur, but also Celac.
The authorship of these situations falls on Washington from the exercise of its power to recover its "natural space of influence." Although Venezuela formalized its withdrawal from the Organization of American States (OAS), the Americans raised the ante to promote not only the breakdown of the country's relations. They promoted a systemic breakdown of multilateral relations in many dimensions.
The scope of the rupture of the integration initiatives (Unasur and Celac) and that had Caracas as a critical node, evolved into worse categories, when in 2019 Washington proclaimed Juan Guaidó as "interim president" of Venezuela, placing the countries in a Manichean formula to recognize Guaidó or Maduro; maintain or dispense with diplomatic relations with the only real government in Caracas, or align or misalign with the lane imposed by the State Department.
Caracas is not Rome, but speaking of geopolitics in the subcontinent, it is a place where everything comes together, which is inexorable, since it is impossible to build a new Unasur without it, and its mere presence imposes a new tone on the result.
Venezuela continues to be a target country for Washington, and for the Americans it continues to be an inexorable destination of its policy.
THE OPPORTUNITY NOT TO BE MISSED
The current political picture is clearly favorable for the relaunch of Unasur. However, the underlying political architecture must be resolved. It consists of understanding the opportunity to develop a bloc policy, in the face of the forcefulness of planetary change.
The multicentric shape that the planet is acquiring has found the region extremely divided and with several countries subject to the status of vassals of the United States. Others, on the other hand, have become politically pendular, plunged into an alternation that implies modest progressive advances and brutal neoliberal setbacks.
The serious problem of the social democratic governments, which prefer to establish themselves in "liberal democracy", has been that of interpreting the political time of their countries and of the world, from the narrow margins of their rigged institutions so that nothing really changes, which make it impossible to real political revolution and who may perish in the next presidential elections just around the corner.
In foreign policy, it implies the development of a synergy with no meaning, with little understanding of the new forces of gravity that are disfiguring the world as we know it and which imply a short projection and no strategic vision.
This is a point to reflect on the so-called (and debatable) second Latin American progressive cycle, where its distinctions are open in the face of the so frequently denounced by Gabriel Boric "troika of evil", as John Bolton called Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua. The belief in moving deep from restraint and Washington's approval does not appear as a red flag in the letter.
South America will hardly be able to be a truly autonomous block until its governments acquire the category of substantive political change, to the point of being able to advance in their foreign agendas with freedom and the ability to maneuver to think about the region from the needs and aspirations of the region.
Right now that integration blocks in Eurasia and Africa are accelerating, they are several steps ahead compared to South America. The level of progress in these countries is not determined by the ideological affiliations of their governments. If we analyze in depth, the "left and right" discussions have no footing in those regions of the world. Their mutual interest is determined by the understanding and assimilation of their loss of ties and aspirations for their own future, to maintain their relations as they exist today with the Anglo-Western world.
The loss of credibility of the United States, the rejection of the incessant looting, the weariness of interference, the intolerance of wars and the exhaustion of the heavy burden of Atlantic hegemony have accelerated this planetary change, which is and will be very difficult. But these blocs forming on the other side of the world are unified by a sense of urgency. Unite or be overwhelmed. Everything that follows it, like the big projects of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative, are really incidental concretions. The underlying question is another.
Does this vision exist for the South American subcontinent? Only Venezuela has those cardinal points and for this reason, for a long time, it has created a long bridge to the Eurasian world, together with Nicaragua and Cuba, in the absence of other less flimsy bridges in closer instances.
The possible relaunch of Unasur would imply a necessary debate in which Venezuela will participate. In May of this year, President Maduro asserted the resurgence of said body as a political commitment, precisely because of the political changes he envisioned in Colombia and Brazil. Now the cards are being dealt.
https://misionverdad.com/globalistan/ha ... -de-unasur
Google Translator
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Argentina Sees 88 Pct Year-on-Year Inflation in October
A woman shops at a supermarket, in the city of Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, on April 13, 2022. | Photo: Xinhua/Martin Zabala
Published 15 November 2022
Argentina registered 88 percent year-on-year inflation in October, with prices rising 6.3 percent for an accumulated 76.6 percent spike in prices so far this year, the National Statistics and Census Institute (INDEC) said Tuesday.
The goods and services that saw the biggest jump in price, year over year, were "clothing and footwear," with a 121.5 percent increase; "restaurants and hotels," with a 105.2 percent rise; and "food and non-alcoholic beverages," with a 91.6 percent increase, the INDEC said.
"Healthcare" costs rose 78.6 percent, while "transportation" climbed 77.9 percent and "education" 76 percent.
Accumulated annual inflation (since January) saw the price of "clothing and footwear" rise 103.1 percent, followed by "restaurants and hotels" by 84.6 percent, and "food and non-alcoholic beverages" by 80 percent.
Over the past 12 months, prices of goods in Argentina rose 91.8 percent and those of services 78.4 percent.
Argentina's government has said fighting inflation is one of its main economic policy goals.
According to the Central Bank of Argentina's latest market expectations survey, inflation could hit three digits toward the end of the current year to reach 100 percent.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Arg ... -0014.html
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Peru: Congress Processes Corruption Complaint Against Castillo
Peruvian President Pedro Castillo, 2022. | Photo: Twitter/ @almayadeen_es
Published 17 November 2022
The Peruvian president considers that this complaint represents the beginning of a new type of coup d'état.
On Wednesday, Peruvian Parliament's Subcommittee on Constitutional Accusations admitted for processing the constitutional complaint that the Prosecutor's Office filed against President Pedro Castillo.
The decision to admit the complaint for "crimes of criminal organization, influence peddling, and collusion" was adopted with thirteen votes in favor and eight votes against.
The complaint entered an evidentiary stage in which the accused can be summoned to exercise his defense before the working group issues a final report. Subsequently, the complaint could go to the Permanent Commission as a prelude to the vote in the plenary session of Congress.
Castillo considers this complaint represents the beginning of a "new type of coup d'état" since the Peruvian Constitution establishes that the president of the republic can only be accused of four specific cases, among which are treason against the country or impeding elections.
The tweet reads, "Defying the legal and constitutional order, the right wing approved the Qualification Report of the Constitutional Complaint 307 against Pedro Castillo. The right wing does not realize that its aggressiveness leads to its self-destruction."
Crimes of corruption or common crimes, however, are not among the constitutional causes to judge the president.
A different perspective is maintained by Attorney General Patricia Benavides who defends the complaint arguing article 30 of the United Nations Convention against Corruption.
Once the process is approved, the complaint will go through a multi-stage process, which could take about three months to reach the plenary session, if it proceeds.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Per ... -0001.html
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President of Bolivia’s Senate Calls for Justice for Crimes in Santa Cruz
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
President of the Bolivian Senate, Andrónico Rodríguez. Photo: File.
The strike in Santa Cruz has caused estimated losses in the vicinity of $900 million.
This Monday, November 11, President of the Bolivian Chamber of Senators Andrónico Rodríguez requested that the crimes committed during the strike in Santa Cruz be investigated.
Through his Twitter account, Rodríguez referred to the indefinite strike that was called in Santa Cruz under the pretext that the population and housing census was postponed until 2024.
The Bolivian legislator released audiovisual material and asserted that, with these images, it was evident that the strike – proposed by the right-wing – was not endorsed by the people.
“These images are a clear sign that the famous and great town hall at the feet of Christ is not the scene of horizontal decisions of the people with the people,” he tweeted, “but of impositions promoted by particular and petty interests.”
Furthermore, Rodríguez stated that the strike generated heavy human and economic losses in addition to violating the fundamental rights of the citizens of Santa Cruz.
According to a report by Prensa Latina, the strike caused losses estimated at nearly $900 million during its 25-day duration.
Rodríguez directly blamed Governor Luis Fernando Camacho, who is also known for his participation in the 2019 coup against Evo Morales, for the recent events in Santa Cruz.
“Mr. Luis Fernando Camacho, being a departmental authority, instead of working for his people,” Rodríguez stated, “played with the conscience, work, economy, and health of the people of Santa Cruz.”
Last Saturday, November 12, Bolivian President Luis Arce announced that the population and housing census will be carried out on March 23, 2024. The new redistribution of tax revenues based on the preliminary census results will be made in September of the same year, one month earlier than initially planned.
https://orinocotribune.com/president-of ... anta-cruz/