Franz Chavez reports for Inter Press Service News Agency: After a nearly 700-km march that took 41 days, members of the Qhara Qhara nation reach the city of La Paz on Mar. 18 to demand legal changes that would guarantee the land rights of the country’s 36 native peoples. Credit: Gastón Brito/IPS LA PAZ, Apr…
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‘Bolivian government lied’: Bolivia’s untouchable Amazon lands at risk once more
Myles McCormick reports for The Guardian: ‘They lied’: Bolivia’s untouchable Amazon lands at risk once more Locals blame coca interests for the state’s broken promise on protecting Tipnis national park, biodiversity hotspot and home to thousands of indigenous people. When Ovidio Teco’s Amazon homeland was declared “untouchable” by the Bolivian government in 2011, his war…
Indigenous of the TIPNIS declared themselves in alert because of a change in the law
Miguel Melendres reports for El Deber: Indigenous of the TIPNIS declared themselves in alert because of a law Proponents of the TIONIS declare emergency and ask for support. Officials from the Indigenous Territory and Isiboro Sécure National Park (TIPNIS) declared themselves in emergency due to the approval of the Amazon Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, the…
Bolivian central gov’s aggression still unsolved: TIPNIS – Chaparina
A good editorial from El Deber: Chaparina, new guidelines September will mark two years of violent police repression against the marchers in the Beni town of Chaparina, against Tipnis defenders, but there is still no guilty parties found. We still remember the Vice President of the State say that he knows who gave the order…
Two proud healthy TWIN marchers join TIPNIS protest-walk group in Chaparina, Altamira!!
Pablo Ortiz reports for El Deber: Two babies are born where there was repression It rains and the news has spread in the three huts of Altamira: a woman has come with birth pangs and may give birth at anytime. It rains and Carolina Moye is lying on a double bed, the unique space of…
TIPNIS protest-walk progress, May 2, 2012
The following article was written by Pablo Ortiz, photos by Hernan Virgo, published in El Deber: “Colleagues, we also celebrate the 1st of May [labor day], because although we are not wage-earners, we are workers, are free laborers. Why is that we petty our territory, why we defend the TIPNIS, because we do not want…
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