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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TIPNIS protest-walk update, as of April 18, 2012
As reported in El Deber’s website: The indigenous leader lamented that a week away from the mobilization, the President Evo Morales along with the Acting Governor of Beni Haisen Rivera, continue giving “gifts” to the villagers that inhabit the Isiboro Sécure National Park; looking after “splitting” the indigenous people and promote the failure of the…
An update: TIPNIS April 25, 2012 protest-walk is well underway, nothing will stop it!!
Pagina Siete reports about the struggle of the TIPNIS and CIDOB rights against current government’s policies: Yesterday, the IV National Commission of the CIDOB ratified the realization of the IX indigenous march from April 25th, despite the fact that the Brazilian company OAS will cease construction of the Villa Tunari-San Ignacio de Moxos road through…
Bolivian government’s pathetic politics…
Bolivian humor is used to diffuse frustration and impotence regarding how laws are not enforced, how public safety is almost nonexistent, how current political party in government wants to erase our past, as if our parents and their grandparents before had nothing to contribute to being a Bolivian citizen: This is from El Diario, March…
TIPNIS has the date and THE place set to start defense of its territory and our national park!
ANF news agency reports and is published in El Deber’s website: The 9th [protest] march will depart seven months after the Government of President Evo Morales restrain the indigenous people who participated in the 8th march, precisely in the town of Chaparina, a few kilometers of Yucumo. [the date is set for April 25, 2012]…
Bolivian government fits the ‘ineptocracy” mold
Andres Oppemheimer has written (for the Miami Herald) the following article and it fits nicely, unfortunately and embarrassedly enough our Bolivian reality: IN MY OPINION Latin Americans complain of “Ineptocracies” BY ANDRES OPPENHEIMER AOPPENHEIMER@MIAMIHERALD.COM A new definition of bad governments is spreading fast on the internet: Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc’-ra-cy) — a system where the least capable…
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