Pagina Siete reports in its website that the indigenous marching group expects the government meets them in Totaizal town, otherwise they will continue to walk to La Paz. The government says they were ready to talk in San Borja; current president says he is sorry the indigenous group hasn’t established contact with the ministers to continue with the dialogue….
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Cochabamba’s perception on corruption
Los Tiempos published today results of a survey regarding how citizens perceive corruption in their municipalities. 1,200 citizens were interviewed in 14 disctrict of the city and 3 other municipalities. Bribery heads the polls by 39.28%; 21.74% agreed that all reasons were cause for corruption; 18.24% political friendship; 8.32% family related; ad 4.81% said none…
Land titles given away in Santa Cruz had no value…
El Dia reports today that the land titles given by the central government over two months ago are of no value. ANAPO (vegetable oil) organization hosted an event where current president gave 1,046 of those titles to the members of this organization. It was an important event that the government used to show that central…
Will USA – Bolivia, restore diplomatic relations?
According to the Bolivian government, the diplomatic relations with the USA can be restored soon, Foreign Affairs Minister said it only needs to set up a date and the place to do it…; provided the US Embassy clarifies their role regarding the TIPNIS leaders phone calls… which are viewed by this Bolivian government as something that…
Bolivian TIPNIS current display of forces… 8/26/11
As time goes by, the Bolivian public perception and stakeholders opinion worldwide are reflected in this cartoon by El Diario, August 26, 2011. Ministers Delgadillo and Romero represent the whole executive power behind current president. The protest march led by TIPNIS and supported by CONAMAQ and CIDOB grows by the minute! So far, ministers who went to meet the walking…
TIPNIS negotiation/dialogue underway! 16:16 hrs 8/25/11
Bolivian government and TIPNIS leaders have decided to go ahead with the dialogue! The indigenous groups do expect that more ministers (9) join the talks to lead the discussion tables that were created (6) to discuss/evaluate the 16 points the groups are asking the government. http://www.paginasiete.bo/2011-08-25/Nacional/Destacados/Destacados_019.aspx The indigenous group does want current Bolivian president to come to the dialogue,…
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