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…
Tag: indigenous rights
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…
Bolivia: Internal and external conflicts are raging
On the day that we celebrate our independence, I chose this article from Los Tiempos, to remind us that only 3% of our 187 independent years have found us under this shocking and stressing lifestyle… but nonetheless have damaged the core of our nationality, the inner soul of our co-existence… Internal and external conflicts are…
Serious environmental damage in Pilcomayo river basin
El Dia flags a serious environmental damage that not only affects indigenous habitants close to the Pilcomayo basin but also endangers our wildlife and economy. This is one issue that current government needs to tackle fast; get their facts straight, and even more if it is a “binational project” between Argentina and Paraguay; it is…
In Bolivia: All is predetermined
Jose Gramunt de Moragas (Jesuit priest), a very well-known journalist in Bolivia, Director of ANF (one of the best and serious news agency that Bolivia has), writes in La Razon: All is predetermined Nine times the real natives of the TIPNIS wanted to reach an agreement with Mr. President What with the mania of the…
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