Pagina Siete reports about the struggle of the TIPNIS and CIDOB rights against current government’s policies: Yesterday, the IV National Commission of the CIDOB ratified the realization of the IX indigenous march from April 25th, despite the fact that the Brazilian company OAS will cease construction of the Villa Tunari-San Ignacio de Moxos road through…
Category: Beni
Bolivian government’s pathetic politics…
Bolivian humor is used to diffuse frustration and impotence regarding how laws are not enforced, how public safety is almost nonexistent, how current political party in government wants to erase our past, as if our parents and their grandparents before had nothing to contribute to being a Bolivian citizen: This is from El Diario, March…
TIPNIS has the date and THE place set to start defense of its territory and our national park!
ANF news agency reports and is published in El Deber’s website: The 9th [protest] march will depart seven months after the Government of President Evo Morales restrain the indigenous people who participated in the 8th march, precisely in the town of Chaparina, a few kilometers of Yucumo. [the date is set for April 25, 2012]…
The ninth indigenous march, in defense of the TIPNIS is underway!!
El Deber’s website reports: After the thirtieth meeting of ‘corregidores’ [local leaders] of the indigenous territory and Isiboro Sécure National Park (TIPNIS) defined the beginning of the ninth indigenous [protest] march for April 20th, the Vice-President of the Confederation of Mojeños Ethnic Peoples of Beni (CPEMB), Miriam Yubánore, asked the social organizations of the nine departments…
TIPNIS heroic and courageous struggle update. March 19, 2012
From Gundonovia, David Moreno reports for El Deber’s website: Unanimously, around 38 communities of the indigenous territory and Isiboro Sécure National Park (TIPNIS), spoke against the construction of the Villa Tunari-San Ignacio de Moxos road [through the TIPNIS] and the consultation stipulated by law 222. Criticisms of the ‘corregidores’ [local authorities] and some representatives of…
Bolivian government’s political style and performance, as of March 2012
Current Bolivian government continues to have serious managerial misfits and sadly it shows an incredible aptitude for flunking, despite over six years in government; the following cartoons just illustrate how it was perceived by Bolivian society, close to the end of February 2012: This one is from El Diario, February 29, 2012. Both current president…
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