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The twentieth day of strike in Santa Cruzthe largest region Bolivianwas fulfilled this Thursday with a caravan of trucks that toured the regional capital to demand that the population census be carried out in 2023 and not in 2024 as defined by the Government of louis arce.
Amid honks, the mobilization, called by the heavy transport union, took a tour of the Fourth Ring, one of the ring roads that characterize the city of Santa Cruz, capital of the homonymous region.
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The vehicles carried Bolivian and Santa Cruz flags and some displayed banners with slogans such as “Bolivia needs a census in 2023″ and “Census 2023 now”.
The carriers, who later blocked some streets using their vehicles, thus demanded a solution to the conflict and joined the regional demand for the national consultation.
In addition, a group of people installed a vigil at the doors of the regional management of the National Tax Service to prevent people from entering the place, as happened the day before in another office of that state entity in another part of the city.
The street blockades to force the strike to be carried out have intensified and spread to streets near the main roads where traffic was interrupted from the beginning.
Santa Cruz, the Bolivian economic engine, has been on indefinite strike since last October 22 to demand that the national survey be carried out in 2023 so that its results can be applied as soon as possible on issues such as the redistribution of state resources and the reallocation of parliamentary seats. depending on the population.
The registration was to take place on November 16, but in July the National Executive announced its postponement to 2024, alleging technical reasons.
A commission “technique” who recently worked in the Amazon city of Trinidad concluded that the census can be carried out between March and April 2024, leaving the definition of the final date in the hands of President Arce.
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This position was established in the absence of the regional delegation of Santa Cruz and the municipal ones of La Paz, Trinidad and Tarija, who left the table denouncing that their proposals for the 2023 census were not taken into account, while the national authorities assured that no they could support them technically.
The conflict has so far resulted in three victims, the first a man who died in October in the midst of clashes between sectors that complied with the strike and others that rejected it, and a young man who died in the early hours of this Wednesday after colliding with a cable at one of the street blockade points in the city of Santa Cruz.
The third deceased is a young man who was stabbed by unknown individuals and took out his heart while participating in a street blockade.
Source: Elcomercio
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