The TIPNIS protest-walk group stopped in the vicinity of Yucumo said today (Los Tiempos website, )14:38 hours that they will not negotiate with government officials if the blockade of the police force persists. Foreign Affairs Minister, David Choquehuanca could not arrive in San Borja, due to the bad condition of the air strip, due to heavy rain; he is…
Category: Social Unrest
Narcs in Bolivia: beware!! today is Sanabria’s sentence!
The former most powerful Bolivia authority in the fight against drugs and narcotrafficking will hear his sentence, in a Miami court today. Rene Sanabria is being prosecuted by Judge Ursula Ungaro (who prosecuted successfully Noriega some years back). American journalists who are experts in this subject, say that today there may not be other names that…
TIPNIS group deprived from water!! (see chart below)
Ruy D’Alencar, special envoy from El Deber reports: TIPNIS protest-walk group can not get water! it is not because it is far away… water can be found in Chaparina stream, twenty meters away from where they were stopped by the police! Yes, 20 meters!! and they can’t have it! The group is on the road for its…
Bolivian mining sector inefficiencies… Déjà vu?
After six years of current government, the Bolivian mining sector is experiencing the same inefficiencies as before 1985. Former vice-minister for Mining Policy, Gerardo Coro told Fides radio and now published in Pagina Siete that the reason of his removal was he alerted that the production cost in Huanuni is higher than the international price. Last Monday, the price…
TIPNIS’ stakeholders, part II
This cartoon is from El Dia (9/21/11), it reads “Oppressed Indigenous” the TIPNIS protest-walk group is surrounded by illegal loggers with chainsaw, high landers with dynamite, policemen with clubs and shields and coca growers with whips. This protests group is surrounded, deprived from water which is nearby and food supplies were not allowed to reach them. In…
About TIPNIS and coca leaf production, a theory appears…
Aside of the protest walk of the TIPNIS that is entering its second month, there is another issue that may be related to such road passing through this National Park: coca leaf production is said to exhaust the nutrients of the soil where it’s grown. An initial thought is that coca growers in the Chapare…
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