Support for the Mobilizations - Cadem

El Mostrador, Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Dear Director:

The Cadem published on November 25, 2019, not only shows a decline in presidential approval but also something more concerning: an increase in support for the continuation of the mobilizations (from 56% to 67%) and consequently a decrease in opposition (from 41% to 30%) that had been achieved the previous week.

In this situation, there is no room to keep all fronts open. If we want to restore public order, we must focus on that matter, but we must also ensure that political, economic, and social solutions progress, and do so quickly. Therefore, it must be understood that immediate measures must be taken that reach people’s pockets now, not in five years. The only measures that can achieve this are economic and pension-related, and in that sense, a major announcement should be made this week. There is no room to postpone this.

Strategies aimed at neutralizing the actions of violent groups are based on the premise that one wins the hearts and minds of the people, as if their support shifts to the insurgents, we are lost. We must act and provide resources to people now, not promises and words that could only be fulfilled in the future.

Richard Kouyoumdjian Inglis
Vice President of AthenaLab