Los Tiempos reports: The TIPNIS sub-central delivered yesterday in La Paz a memorial to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) to request the suspension of the “prior” consultation that the Government prepares to achieve for the construction of the Villa Tunari-San Ignacio de Moxos road through the protected area. The Organization denounced the Executive sent commissions…
Category: Social Unrest
Bolivian presidential’s priorities… coca yes, seacoast claim & others… not for now, they can just wait
Over this week, news reported of the intention’s of current Bolivian president to travel to either push the agenda related to our seacoast claim against Chile in the international forum or to advocate for the coca chewing… well, it was not a hard dilemma, as expected the current leader of the coca growers from the…
TIPNIS update, February 23, 2012
TIPNIS continues to struggle against governmental manipulation; yesterday the government has promoted the prosecution of women who “allegedly” are said to be guilty for keeping hostage the Foreign Affairs Minister, David Choquehuanca, days prior to the brutal aggression of the police force to the marchers. That is blunt intimidation said CIDOB’s President to Unitel on…
Worrying floods in Pando, help is needed! February 22, 2012
El Deber reports about heavy rainfall in Pando: Over 900 families affected by floods in Pando. In the last few hours, heavy rainfall in the Amazonian Department of Pando experienced the overflow of the Acre River, which devastated the border of the town of Bolpebra; then on its way it affected at least six districts of the…
Bolivian government loses ground and international media is beginning to notice…
The Associated Press published the following article: Bolivian loses core backers Fellow Indians are feeling betrayed by President Evo Morales’ policies. February 19, 2012|By Carlos Valdez, Associated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia – Bolivia’s long-downtrodden indigenous majority adored President Evo Morales as he championed a new constitution that promised the nation’s 36 ethnicities unprecedented autonomy. But…
What do we have in common with Cuba, Iran and North Korea? take a guess!
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF and in Spanish GAFI) is a very reputable institution and has been monitoring our fairly new “economy,” El Deber reports: Bolivia and Cuba remain without complying with the norms against money-laundering Bolivia and Cuba are on the list of countries that do not meet international standards against money laundering…
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