The Bolivian police force deployed in Yucumo, has stopped the TIPNIS protest march group by the bridge Chaparina, reports La Razon in its website at 18:06 hours today. Police said they took that measure as precautionary as the settlers are also there (arrived to that bridge around 11:00); police justified their action as they said they…
Month: September 2011
TIPNIS’ stakeholders of the world, UNITE!!!
Bolivian Thoughts in an Emerging World wants to thank Avaaz.org (The World in Action) for their campaign in support of the TIPNIS. Contents of their page follow: “Bolivia: Stop the Destruction of the Amazon” “Bolivia’s government is about to approve a mega-highway that could enable foreign companies to pillage the world’s most important forest. But,…
Bolivian indigenous rights were violated; CONAMAQ to the UN
A rep from CONAMAQ (Consejo Nacional de Ayllus y Markas del Qullasuyu- the National Council of the highlands people, it grabs the name of one of the States in the Inca Empire, the Qullasuyu or Kollasuyo, where most of Bolivia is now), that representative went to the UN offices in Geneva, Switzerland to denounce current Bolivian government for violating indigenous rights regarding the road that intends to…
Santa Cruz produces 72% of the Bolivian food supply
Last century, Cochabamba was considered the “food barn” for Bolivia, now it is the turn of Santa Cruz department; there are plenty of reasons: rich environment composed of rain forest, dry forest/chaco, mesothermic valleys and a little portion of the amazon basin; human capital and entrepreneurial attitude. Santa Cruz produces currently 72% of all the food produced…
Bolivian presidents’s priorities 9/18/11
While the TIPNIS protest march continues with blockades by coca growers (settlers) and police force, this cartoon from El Diario shows how he rushes to go overseas. He went to Venezuela, to visit and then accompany that president for his chemotherapy in Cuba, then he intends to go to a UN meeting in the USA. La Opinion…
Is the Bolivian government worried about Sanabria’s trial in the US?
It would appear so, before heading to Venezuela (where he intends to show support to that president), current Bolivian president said at the time of his departure, in Cochabamba: “I don’t know what they are preparing from the US with general Sanabria, having suspended the hearings for his conviction, it raises suspicion, the general (Rene…
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