Excerpts from today’s El Deber follows: The Cabinet (executive government ministers) vetoed the signing of the agreement with the TIPNIS indigenous people; they want to make a viable regulation of the law 180 that protects the Isiboro-Sécure Park and requested that the text establishes clearly that all commercial activity of their resources is prohibited. This…
Pending issues related to the TIPNIS struggle, as of Dec 1, 2011
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…
Bolivian negotiation 101 = blockades
What is the intention to live year around with strikes and blockades? this is not the times of getting out of a dictatorship; nor is it the attempts to grow politically like current president and his political party did before assuming power six years ago. Today’s editorial from Los Tiempos excerpts follow: Blockades, a collective…
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…
Poverty and Indigence levels at their lowest in 20 years
The Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA) -the Spanish acronym is CEPAL, has released this study yesterday, excerpts follow below. For a copy of the full report, please use the link at the end. Poverty and Indigence Levels Are the Lowest in 20 Years in Latin America (29 November 2011) Today, the Economic Commission for Latin…
Blackouts are in order: Santa Cruz suffers the most!
El Deber reports: The main reason for today’s incoming cuts, from 14: 00, is due to non operation of the transmission line(high voltage) between Carrasco (Cochabamba) and Arboleda in Buenavista, operated by the company ISA-Bolivia. This line will join maintenance, according to the National Committee on energy emission (CNDC). There will also be unavailability of some generating…
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