I had the privilege of visiting the Madidi, the Chalalan lodge and walk at 4am in those trails and be enchanted by the wildlife! Hard to reach, remember four hours in a boat after a road trip of over 14 hours, sorting blockades, leaving a powerful 4×4 at the side of the road and on…
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Commission supports Chavez and requests to stop query inside the TIPNIS
The TIPNIS struggle for their rights continue and so does CIDOB”s as they try to recover their independence from political influences. CIDOB’s president Adolfo Chavez was elected until 2015 and due to the support he gave to the TIPNIS cause, political influences ‘promoted’ a highly questionable ‘new election’ where someone else appeared appointment at a…
Bolivian president derogatory remarks against the people of the Bolivian lowlands
Freddy Lacio reports for El Deber: Process announced against Morales for racism towards the East Members of the Congress do not want the President in September celebrations The words of President Evo Morales, who said that if hunger is passed in the Bolivian eastern part is attributed to laziness, in a public ceremony, was felt…
UN worried on conflicts being generated due to the TIPNIS consultation process
Los Tiempos reports on the TIPNIS struggle with a relentless government decision to cut in half the indigenous territory and our National Park: United Nations concerned that the query is generating conflicts Coordinator resident of the United Nations system in Bolivia, Yoriko Yasukawa, expressed yesterday the concern about the course of the consultation in the…
Ongoing TIPNIS struggle and a recollection of events through cartoons from Bolivian press
This is from El Diario, July 6, 2012: Current president saying “…we must take care, respect and protect mother earth…” And a road construction crew and machinery entering the TIPNIS, destroying the forest… . This is from El Diario, July 10, 2012: With very low temperatures in winter time La Paz city, the TIPNIS marchers…
About the TIPNIS, OUR forest and the Cauca lessons
This cartoon from La Razon, July 16, 2012, portrays the way current government, allegedly and self-proclaimed defender of mother nature, only gives attention to the coca grower’s business… while the actual owners of their territory and protectors of one of OUR national parks are facing the road construction that will part the TIPNIS in half……
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