This report from El Dia, and it is also worth remembering that the Acre used to be Bolivian soil. Two members of the Congress of the State of Acre, Brazil, blamed the Government of Evo Morales by the increase in drug trafficking in the region. Statements made following the first demonstration against the crack and…
Category: Social Unrest
TIPNIS protest-walk in defense of indigenous rights and a National Park, has started!!
Lily Soruco reports for El Deber’s website: More than 400 indigenous people departed from Trinidad in route to the city of La Paz. Indigenous people trying to prevent the construction of a road through the indigenous territory and the Isiboro-Sécure National Park (TIPNIS), today they marched around the main square before embarking on the journey…
Potential setback for Santa Cruz and Bolivia, will the Mutun remain unproductive?
Natali Vargas from Pagina Siete, highlights what may become a major disappointment for Santa Cruz and less revenue for all Bolivia, over the short run: Jindal Steel and Power Limited (JSPL) is already not taking into account the draft steel of the Mutún in their estimates of investment and profits in the future, as it…
Amid the chaos, there is light and hope in Bolivia
There are at least three major violent struggles in Bolivia this week. The health strike fighting the eight-hour day-work that current government stubbornly advocates, as if that would be the main cause to improve health attention. The TIPNIS march that had to postpone one day the start of their protest-walk, starting from Trinidad as the…
Current Bolivian economic and political struggle
The following recent cartoons portray our current frustrating reality: This is from La Prensa, April 11, 2012. A big ship emulating the Titanic, is going to crash with an iceberg who has “blockades, marches, strikes” all over. A person in the Bolivian ship says “let not happen like 100 years ago, we have time to…
Blockades and threats of violence against TIPNIS’ defenders and the Ninth protest-walk, April 2012
TIPNIS’ 9th protest-walk is under fire, this cartoon is from El Dia, March 27, 2012. It reads “Beating without responsible ones” and below that: “the chain of command was broken!” so that the cruel, unnecessary beating from the police force to the 8th protest-walk of last year’s. No one takes the responsibility for that atrocious…
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