Shannon Biggs and Nick Buxton report for The Ecologist: Bolivia’s first indigenous president set out a bold and inspiring vision to save the planet from climate and environmental breakdown just over ten years ago. In an open letter, Evo Morales said “Mother Earth is ill.” He urged the industrialised countries to drastically reduce emissions, increase technology…
Tag: indigenous rights
Bolivia: Nature rights tribunal condemns TIPNIS project
Bolivian Thoughts opinion: evo’s acolytes have been disregarding this ruling … the production of coca leaves is far more interesting to them ,,, and of course for narcotrafficking … I would be extremely surprised to see evo back tracking to his relentless desire to cut in half the TIPNIS … he is pushing an illegitimate…
International Court will issue ruling on Tipnis complaint
El Diario reports: It will be on May 15 The process in the middle of the construction of the road that runs through the heart of the Isiboro Sécure reserve began in 2017 when the indigenous people denounced the violation of their rights in Germany. In 2018, a commission visited the region and verified the…
An Indigenous Nation Battles for Land and Justice in Bolivia
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…
The acute conflict of the Qhara Qharas
El Diario Editorial, photo from the internet: As time passes, the serious contradictions in the agrarian question, contained in the current Political Constitution of the State, the INRA Law dictated by the government of Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada and the Law of Community Reconciliation of the Agrarian Reform approved by the government of Evo Morales,…
The controversial referendum to revive Bolivia’s Rositas dam
Bolivian Thoughts opinion: China’s loans/investments/contracts in Bolivia are tainted with the obscure relationship the Chinese had with evo, the autocrat. Beginning with the Zapata affaire, the numerous cases of Bolivian personnel being mistreated by Chinese supervisors, the atrocious effect on our biodiversity and wildlife, like the illegal hunting of Bolivian Jaguars for their fangs, the…
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