Current Bolivian government continues to show it cares very little of laws and manipulates them at will. Estefany Claros Aldana reports for El Dia: Adriana Gil prepares an injunction to avoid suspension The opposition Deputy, from National Convergence (CN), Adriana Gil, announced that she is preparing a Constitutional Protection [Amparo Constitucional] to avoid being suspended,…
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TIPNIS: Chaparina without justice!!
This is an Editorial from El Deber: Chaparina without Justice A year after having happened, it is still present in the collective memory, the brutal repression in Chaparina against hundreds of men, women and children marching in defense of their territory against the construction of a road through the heart of the TIPNIS. In that…
Commission supports Chavez and requests to stop query inside the TIPNIS
The TIPNIS struggle for their rights continue and so does CIDOB”s as they try to recover their independence from political influences. CIDOB’s president Adolfo Chavez was elected until 2015 and due to the support he gave to the TIPNIS cause, political influences ‘promoted’ a highly questionable ‘new election’ where someone else appeared appointment at a…
UN worried on conflicts being generated due to the TIPNIS consultation process
Los Tiempos reports on the TIPNIS struggle with a relentless government decision to cut in half the indigenous territory and our National Park: United Nations concerned that the query is generating conflicts Coordinator resident of the United Nations system in Bolivia, Yoriko Yasukawa, expressed yesterday the concern about the course of the consultation in the…
Ongoing TIPNIS struggle and a recollection of events through cartoons from Bolivian press
This is from El Diario, July 6, 2012: Current president saying “…we must take care, respect and protect mother earth…” And a road construction crew and machinery entering the TIPNIS, destroying the forest… . This is from El Diario, July 10, 2012: With very low temperatures in winter time La Paz city, the TIPNIS marchers…
About the TIPNIS, OUR forest and the Cauca lessons
This cartoon from La Razon, July 16, 2012, portrays the way current government, allegedly and self-proclaimed defender of mother nature, only gives attention to the coca grower’s business… while the actual owners of their territory and protectors of one of OUR national parks are facing the road construction that will part the TIPNIS in half……
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