Bolivia continues to face strikes, blockades and this behavior is chaotic, anarchic and damaging to our economy and daily lives; an excerpt follows of what was published by Pagina Siete: President Evo Morales insisted Thursday the construction of the Villa Tunari-San Ignacio de Moxos road that will cross by the TIPNIS; and that professionals and…
Category: Environment
Hectic politics during May 2012…
At least three main nationwide conflicts and a very visible ongoing TIPNIS saga are the frustrating Bolivian showcase during the last six weeks or so: This is from Los Tiempos, April 25, 2012: kid: “in Chile, president Piñera has inaugurated a program called ‘one story per day’, to boost ‘lecture among children, preferably to be…
TIPNIS group bypasses San Ignacio as it was barbed-wire by intransigent people
ANF reports and is published (around noontime today) in Los Tiempos website: A column of 30 police officers escorted the passage of the ninth indigenous March in defense of the TIPNIS which managed to overcome the blocking point for entering San Ignacio de Moxos, while some people of the town and surroundings were shouting in…
TIPNIS protest-walk in the verge of violence; as of May 8, 2012
It is 9:16 and El Deber’s website reports that the protest-walk has decided to enter San Ignacio de Moxos, the people blockading the access remain blockading, please be alert as I will tweet developments as they evolve… Pablo Ortiz reports for El Deber. Along the article, I am inserting a number of cartoons that portray…
Former ally accuses current government of generating the social conflicts
Pagina Siete reports: [The former ally of current government, the political party] Without Fear Movement [MSM] issued a statement on the recent social developments, which points out that conflicts are caused and promoted by the Government of President Evo Morales. The document – entitled “the origin of social conflicts is the plan of repositioning the…
May 7, 2012: a week full of conflict and potential escalating violence
TIPNIS protest-walk group is facing today a blockade in San Ignacio de Moxos, TV news showing people with brand new rolls of barbed wire “fencing” the road where the marchers are supposed to be passing-by today (whose financing?), marchers’ group is around 11 km away of this conflicting town. Some inhabitants of that town do…
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