La Paz recovered its status as the center of Bolivia, in terms of the XX century “melting pot” condition, Bolivian citizenship and respect to one another. The TIPNIS protest-walk group stopped by the Cathedral in Plaza Murillo, despite initial governmental signals to keep marchers out of what current government felt as “their” plaza. TV showed lots of people,…
Day: October 19, 2011
La Paz greets TIPNIS’ marchers who will meet Gov tomorrow
It is noon, Wednesday, October 19, 2011. La Paz is greeting the marchers as they finally arrived La Paz. Insults, bad-mouthing, tear gas, gagged, beaten, broken ribs could not stop the proud indigenous people of the Bolivian lowlands. La Paz population is showing their real face, welcoming the TIPNIS group like heroes, offering them not…
Three ministers were expelled from TIPNIS’ camp
Minister of Justice, Nilda Copa; Rural Development, Nemesia Achacollo; and Transparency, Nardi Suxo, went to meet the TIPNIS protest-walk group. Ministers were taking with them clothes and food, when they arrived Urujara, where the indigenous people spent the night before entering La Paz; the ministers were booed by the marchers and forced to leave. The vice-president for the Bolivian Confederation of Indigenous Women, Judith Rivero,…
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