This cartoon appeared today in El Diario, it represents what most, if not all, Bolivians feel about th ongoing struggle of the indigenous people from the TIPNIS who are fighting against a road construction that intends to cut their territory in half. The first person says: “…the ‘Evo’ in all these years has accomplished in…
TIPNIS group is in La Paz! read about their Resolution
Over 42 days of struggle took the TIPNIS protest-walk group to reach the department of La Paz. Almost a week ago from the violent repression near Yucumo, over 500 indigenous people from TIPNIS re-started the protest-walk today October 1st early in the morning from Quiquibey, Beni; by nightfall they are resting in Villa Delicia, La Paz…
Bolivia continues to import more food supplies
The Bolivian Institute for Foreign Trade (IBCE), has been kind enough to send us an important chart that shows Bolivia continues to import more and more food supplies. The green bars are the value in millions of dollars. The red line shows the volume in thousands of tons. The yellow box reads: “503 thousand tons of…
Minor Vidal: I’m not a hero, I’m a blessed miracle from God!
Minor Vidal left the clinic today, he spoke briefly and said as a catholic, “I’m not a hero, I’m a blessed miracle from God!” he was found alive on September 9th, as he was the only survivor from the Aerocon crash as the plane was approaching Trinidad airport. This picture is from El Deber’s website,…
La Paz is divided! TIPNIS was the detonator
The stronghold of current government is divided; for many years La Paz showed nothing but support to current government policies. Today around noon time, a group of highlanders, campesinos from rural La Paz, from Aymara origin marched in downtown La Paz city; showing support to current Bolivian president. Support marches like this one happened many times…
TIPNIS protest-walk will continue; most of Beni under strike
The protest-walk group will continue its way to La Paz. Many of the indigenous people have left San Borja and Rurrenabaque en route to the point of gathering along the road to continue marching; this point is past Yucumo where last week there was a settlers’ blockade. Past president for TIPNIS sub-central, Adolfo Moye said that between 20 and 50…
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