Tonight, around prime time Bolivian TV (20:15 hours), current Bolivian president spoke again about the violent repression the TIPNIS protest-walk group had to endure. His speech and body language did not seem honest. Arrogance and finger-pointing continued to be a large part of his speech. He also asked for dialogue with the TIPNIS and again repeated a need to call for a national debate.

There seems to be reluctance to accept the nature of the TIPNIS, is an indigenous territory and a national park; thus, it does not need any other “law” or “political” move to accept reality: the TIPNIS area must remain as is.

The company in charge to build the road has started releasing information regarding how expensive and not viable would be a road if it does not cut the TIPNIS territory. In Environmental Economics there is a mechanism called “internalizing the externalities” that alone assumes that the cost would be indeed higher, and it should be accepted since the value of preserving that ecosystem overcompensate any “plain economic” condition.

Around the same time the president was speaking, PAT showed one of the police guards’ spouses warning the government not to look after police soldiers as scape goats for the violence of this past Sunday. She referred to another time when the police force engaged in mutiny.