Former Brazilian President, Luis Inacio Lula Da Silva came to beautiful Santa Cruz de la Sierra to attend an international economics forum. “Lula” as he is commonly known approved the loan that would serve to construct the road that was thought to go through TIPNIS. Some years ago he attended a meeting in the coca growing area…
Category: Drug war – narcotraffick
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…
TIPNIS and USA relations? Protest Walk UPDATE 8/27/11
This cartoon is from La Razon, August 27, 2011. You can see Quintana, carving a “Gringo go Home” in the TIPNIS. Quintana is a public official who criticized indigenous TIPNIS leaders talking with US Embassy personnel and advocating that USAID should be expelled from Bolivia. This protest walk is in its 13th day; yesterday the group walked 17 kilometers and…
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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