The government prepares a photography and TikTok contest among census takers to reward their experience.

 This Sunday, the Minister of Planning, Sergio Cusicanqui, shared some good news. In the upcoming days, a photography and TikTok contest will be launched aimed at volunteer census takers. "We will recognize and reward the most creative works that reflect the work done during the census day," he said.

"Our deep gratitude and pride towards the hundreds of thousands of volunteer census takers who traveled throughout the country to collect important information for our development and future," he expressed, and his words were also reflected in the bulletin that the Vice Ministry of Communication began to circulate.

The commitment of our census takers has been recognized by the entire Bolivian people, and we want to hear about your experiences and anecdotes from the census day. Therefore, we will launch a contest in which you can share your experiences through photographs or TikToks. This is what the preview of the invitation says, as soon the channels through which to send the photos and videos will be announced.

"We invite you to be part of this exciting contest that will allow us to learn the story of each of our heroes," concludes the suggestive preview of the call.

Census: They report "herding" people to "inflate" the population of other municipalities

 The councilor of the Democratic Party, Manuel "Mamen" Saavedra, denounced that some municipalities in the country are providing buses to "herd" people who live and work in the city of Santa Cruz, with the purpose of "inflating" the population numbers of their municipalities.

On Thursday night, Mamen arrived at the Bimodal Terminal and spoke with some people who were about to be transported to the municipality of Monteagudo, in the department of Chuquisaca, to be counted in the census on Saturday, March 23.

Some individuals stated that the Municipality of Monteagudo offered them free transportation (round trip) by bus in exchange for being counted in the municipality of Chuquisaca.

Offer on social media

On the social media accounts of that Municipality, a post shows the call for those born in Monteagudo to go there to be counted in the census.

"Unfortunately, there is herding of people two days before the census. They are taking citizens to other municipalities to be counted there, inflating their numbers and taking away numbers from our municipality," said Councilor Saavedra.

Mamen questioned other municipalities in the country for "promoting herding" causing harm to the municipality of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, by reducing its economic resources for health and education.

"The census is for receiving health, education, and employment, and the worst part is that this is being promoted by municipal governments because they are offering free transportation on their official pages for people to be counted there. They are inflating their numbers to receive more income, to the detriment of other municipalities," he lamented.

The councilor from Santa Cruz has doubts about the financing of transportation for these individuals. "The question is who pays for these fleets, are they using public resources, or are they paying out of their own pockets. The fact is they are doing things they shouldn't. And what will happen when these people get sick, where will they turn to? Here, because here they live and work," said Mamen.

The councilor displayed printed images of the municipalities of Monteagudo, Culpina, Padilla, Huacareta, and San Lucas, which supposedly are offering free transportation for people to be counted in those places.

This situation can be verified through the social media pages of some of these municipalities. For example, in Culpina.

This happens in the case of San Pablo de Huacareta:

In the municipality of San Lucas, they offer to transport the natives of that locality who live in Tarija.

Movement at the Bimodal Terminal

On the other hand, from early hours this Thursday in Santa Cruz, there was also a significant movement of people at the Bimodal Terminal, even transport company workers admitted that there was an increase in the demand for tickets to travel within the country.