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…
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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 Bolivian capacity to capture foreign investment was questioned by the British
From Los Tiempos: Minister of British State for Latin America, Jeremy Browne, who said that Bolivia has the great weakness of not being able to attract foreign investment and that many British companies would not be interested in doing business in the country by the background of expropriation. … According to a note published by…
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…
Coca-ine issues prior to the shameful trip to Vienna…
The government is planning a trip next week to Vienna, to advocate coca chewing and in a way trying to amend the big mistake of abandoning the Vienna Convention. A major failure in the diplomatic arena that adds to the hectic and haphazard way the negotiations that are taking place with Chile. This cartoon is…
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