President Paz Pereira Signs Agreements With Six Tarija Municipalities to Build Covered Courts

Bolivia’s government plans to build covered courts and multipurpose sports courts at schools in six municipalities in Tarija: Bermejo, Cercado, El Puente, San Lorenzo, Padcaya and Villa Montes.

President Rodrigo Paz Pereira signed the intergovernmental agreements during a ceremony at the Patio del Cabildo. He said the projects were designed with a medium- and long-term vision, presenting the covered structures as community spaces rather than simply sports facilities. They will host civic ceremonies, parent meetings, and cultural and sporting activities.

“Beyond the little court, the covered structure represents a meeting point to celebrate, gather and know what decisions the community will make,” Paz Pereira said. He added that the structures would be welcome as long as they were not used to organize blockades, saying Bolivia could no longer tolerate them. He also referred to a blockade that, he said, had lasted 20 years in Bolivia.

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Beyond the little court, the covered structure represents a meeting point to celebrate, gather and know what decisions the community will make.

Luis Ramiro Peña, executive director of the National Productive and Social Investment Fund, described the facilities as multipurpose centers within schools. He urged Tarija’s mayors to submit paving projects within the established deadlines, warning that some municipalities had already been left out of previous covered-court and multipurpose-court projects.

Paz Pereira said the government was supporting Tarija through more than these facilities, including social housing backed by nearly 300 million bolivianos and road projects managed by the Bolivian Highway Administration. Peña also said officials planned to resume the National Irrigation Program with municipalities in the remaining months of the year.

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In other words, there is an integrated concept behind these projects to be carried out under the Complementary Infrastructure Program.