After the 66 days of struggle and the end of year approaching very fast, the indigenous people and stakeholders of the TIPNIS right to remain as is, are still struggling with two important issues: This cartoon is from El Diario, November 29, 2011. The brutal police aggression to the TIPNIS marchers goes still unpunished. Human…
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Relentless coca… cocaine production???
These two cartoons portray the way coca crop and its “processed products” have an impact on our lives… This is from El Dia (11/24/11), and it also relates to the TIPNIS struggle for survival: the defeated (no road through TIPNIS) powerful coca-grower/intercultural person (new “marketing” sociological name to brand some of the supporters of this…
TIPNIS triggers a winning cartoon!
La Razon’s cartoon won the first national award: A drawing of Al – Azar (Alejandro Salazar), published on July 10 in the section Gallery of Abnormalities of the supplement: Animal Politician, won the first national award in the caricature category of the National Press Association. The image is referred to the conflict unleashed by the…
TIPNIS and current government agreed on the regulations for the “short Law”
La Opinion offers updated information regarding the norms that will enforce the “short law” regarding the road that should not go through the TIPNIS: The Government and the indigenous people who marched against the road that attempted to cut the TIPNIS in half, approved this Sunday the regulation of the TIPNIS short law; after more…
TIPNIS and the old beaten scape goat…
This cartoon appeared in El Diario, 11/22/11. Bolivian society keeps looking after the responsible person in charge of ordering the brutal repression to the TIPNIS marchers’ group. People are shouting “who did the order! who was!” and the former vice minister is pointing to the former minister of government and saying “he was!!” while current…
TIPNIS government’s same old song
If current government has something of remarkable nature is that is relentless. Likewise, it is just a shame that such energy and committment is only used to beat dead horses… This cartoon is from El Dia, November 18, 2011. On top it reads “Inter-cultural ecologist.” Current vice-minister for the environment is placing the non-approval, denied stamp on…
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