The 31 departmental and regional federations that make up the Confederation of Urban Education Workers of Bolivia (Cteub) staged a protest march yesterday in the city of La Paz demanding the government to increase the education budget through the provision of newly created items, as well as attention to their demands.
The protest began in the afternoon at the CBN bridge and ended at the Ministry of Education building located on Arce Avenue. The teachers reported several injured people in the midst of the gassings carried out by the Police.
The national executive of the Cteub, Patricio Molina, warned that if the urban teachers do not receive an answer to the demand for at least 2 thousand more items requested to the Ministry of Education, they will go on strike for 24 hours this Friday, blocking roads and suspending activities in educational units throughout the country.
In this regard, the Minister of Education, Edgar Pary, asked the urban teachers to resume the dialogue and to stop their pressure measures. However, Molina indicated that they are waiting for the convocation of the Minister of Education to talk about the provision of new items.
"In 2020 no items were delivered, in 2021 1,700 items were delivered and in 2022 3,300 items were delivered. I believe that with that we have covered many expectations and needs (...). We invite the teachers to continue dialoguing, debating and we will continue to meet all the needs they raise, based on the economic capacity of the national government", said Edgar Pary.
During this and last week, the Ministry of Education and the Cteub held meetings where they tried to solve the conflict, but could not reach an agreement.
Molina assured that they received a counter-proposal to advance in the following points: "attention to the historical deficit, they proposed to provide 10,500 hours, but the debt amounts to more than 100 thousand, and to deal with the issue of optimization so as not to close or merge courses".
Among the urban teachers' requests is also the leveling of hours, quality and warm attention in the National Health Fund and compliance with all the agreements previously signed with the Ministry of Education.
Finally, the Vice-Minister of Alternative Education, Sandra Cruz, indicated that they have not yet received reports from the departmental education departments about the alleged absence of teachers in their educational units.
Rural teachers
On Tuesday, rural teachers signed an agreement with Minister Edgar Pary, for the assignment of workloads.
With this agreement, the Government expects to reduce the strength of the mobilizations of the urban teachers sector, who are carrying out demonstrations in the city.
Parents reject marche
The general secretary of parents of La Paz, Rudy Llampa, yesterday rejected the attitudes of the teachers of the Urban Teachers in an attempt to expand their call for a march next Friday.
"The parents, organically represented by their district, regional, departmental and national executive presidents, we reject, from every point of view, this attitude of the Magisterio Urbano," he said.
He assured that, if the teachers do not show up at their work sources and in the classrooms for going to marches and blockades, they will present a report to the Ministry of Education so that they can be economically sanctioned.
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