El Diario reports: It does not declare a national disaster On Wednesday 4 of this month they will evaluate the trial of responsibilities against President Evo Morales for “ecocide”, “ethnocide” and “biocide” The forest fire recorded in the Chiquitania region, which exceeds 1,100,000 hectares of forest, caused irreparable losses to nature. The Government did not…
Tag: indigenous rights
No Refuge for the Amazon in Evo Morales’ Bolivia
Devin Beaulieu reports for Common Dreams: Evo Morales has carefully cultivated his image on the world stage as an indigenous defender of the “Pachamama (Mother Earth),” but his domestic policies belie another reality. Response by the ideologically leftwing government of Evo Morales has been forced, instead, largely due to domestic pressure by Bolivians that increasingly…
evo to face lawsuit for biocide and ethnocide!
El Diario reports: Concerns of representatives MAS extractivist policy threatens indigenous people and ecosystems Indigenous people raise responsibility lawsuits against Evo Morales and his collaborators for biocide and ethnocide, they do not rule out going to international instances to denounce those abuses The extension of the agricultural frontier, the exploration of hydrocarbons and minerals in…
evo and the MAS denigrating people with the “mitimae”
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario, the definition of mitimae is provided here: Economy of words The mitimaes of MAS Like the Incario monarchs, the Evo Morales party has sent thousands of Bolivian citizens away from their places of birth to invade lands of other native peoples and spread the philosophy of the “process of…
The Dirty Business Behind Bolivia’s Clean Energy Plants
Thomas Graham writes for World Politics Review: Use the links provided to read in full this excellent but striking depiction of evo’s delusions! https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/28048/the-dirty-business-behind-bolivia-s-clean-energy-plans
Fracking in the Bolivian jungle
Stefan Cramer writes in the Ecologist: Bolivian farmers have been resisting gas exploration in the invaluable Tariquía National Reserve – but they need international support. Bolivian president Evo Morales was inaugurated in 2006 as the first indigenous person to be sworn in as a president of a sovereign nation. Since then, he has shown extraordinary…
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