TIPNIS continues to struggle against governmental manipulation; yesterday the government has promoted the prosecution of women who “allegedly” are said to be guilty for keeping hostage the Foreign Affairs Minister, David Choquehuanca, days prior to the brutal aggression of the police force to the marchers. That is blunt intimidation said CIDOB’s President to Unitel on…
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Bolivian government loses ground and international media is beginning to notice…
The Associated Press published the following article: Bolivian loses core backers Fellow Indians are feeling betrayed by President Evo Morales’ policies. February 19, 2012|By Carlos Valdez, Associated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia – Bolivia’s long-downtrodden indigenous majority adored President Evo Morales as he championed a new constitution that promised the nation’s 36 ethnicities unprecedented autonomy. But…
Let’s show support to TIPNIS, February 16, 2012
Stakeholders must show support to the indigenous owner’s of the TIPNIS territory as well as to the integrity of this and ALL National Parks! Current Bolivian government is literally playing with the Constitution, laws and other forms of tampering and jeopardizing the self-determination and indigenous rights, let alone the preservation we must keep of our…
Bolivian’s cocaine industry under the analysis of the Wall Street Journal
This is an excellent article, well written by John Lyons; it reveals how Bolivia has been captured by the worst imaginable nightmare, follows excerpts from this article, portions that pertain to Bolivian reality: Cocaine: The New Front Lines by JOHN LYONS, The Wall Street Journal In the dusty town of Villa Tunari in Bolivia‘s tropical coca-growing…
TIPNIS: …and the charade is complete! and we are not even in carnival, yet…
The damage to our country is done!! with this approval, not only the TIPNIS will suffer, the indigenous groups are being played and will lose their privacy, their way of living…while the rest of us will see how one of our national parks gets destroyed! Not only does this government praise to erase a Law…
TIPNIS needs to be protected, February 5, 2012
Current government has changed its tactics, after a pale welcoming of the group of people who want a road to cut the TIPNIS, now they are working in the National Assembly (former Congress) a law that will open up the possibility for such road. In the meantime, public opinion is reflected as follows: This is…
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