ANF, Pagina Siete: “No ha llegado la vacunación dentro del territorio (Tipnis), lo que ha llegado es la violencia, lo que ha sucedido el día de ayer. Pido que dejemos de estar violentándonos entre bolivianos. De lo que se tienen que preocupar es de la salud. Los que son responsables, las instituciones para que lleguen…
Tag: indigenous rights
Less land for the indigenous – Menos tierra para los indígenas
Luis Antezana, El Diario: Indigenous people own less land now than before The amount of land that peasants and indigenous people have is now less than what they owned before the application of the new agrarian legislation INRA, dictated by the government of Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada and prolonged in its validity by the Agrarian…
How an Indigenous People in Bolivia’s Amazon Survived COVID-19
Pulitzer Center: When the coronavirus arrived in the spring, Yuqui fisherman Salomon Quispe was frightened. His wife had tuberculosis a few years before and was still in poor health. At 52 years old, Salomon Quispe himself was no longer as young as he once was, and he, too, felt at risk. Quispe also worried that…
Desprecio y brutalidad contra los indígenas – Contempt and brutality against indigenous people
Gabriela Canedo, El Día: Chaparina in memory “We are going to blow them up.” It was the threat of the Secretary General of the Confederation of Intercultural Colonizers of Bolivia against the indigenous people of the lowlands who were leading the Eighth March in defense of their territory and against the highway that the TIPNIS…
evo/MAS – RIP
Fátima López, Página Siete: Epitaphs and premonitions Essays of epitaphs and apocalyptic announcements were the keynote of the messages of unity and disarmament that the MAS proposed to Bolivians, it did so head-on, as if it were about planting daisies on the road. Clad in a blue guayabera, under the blazing Pando sun, JRQ seemed…
Scientists are producing data without sharing it with people who actually need it
All scientists want their research to have impact. But how often is that impact realized? A recent case study in Madidi National Park, Bolivia sought to put numbers to actual rates of knowledge dissemination and implementation. This study, published by Anne Toomey, assistant professor at Pace University, María Eugenia Copa Alvaro from the Colección Boliviana de Fauna in Bolivia,…
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