La Opinion offers updated information regarding the norms that will enforce the “short law” regarding the road that should not go through the TIPNIS: The Government and the indigenous people who marched against the road that attempted to cut the TIPNIS in half, approved this Sunday the regulation of the TIPNIS short law; after more…
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TIPNIS and the old beaten scape goat…
This cartoon appeared in El Diario, 11/22/11. Bolivian society keeps looking after the responsible person in charge of ordering the brutal repression to the TIPNIS marchers’ group. People are shouting “who did the order! who was!” and the former vice minister is pointing to the former minister of government and saying “he was!!” while current…
TIPNIS government’s same old song
If current government has something of remarkable nature is that is relentless. Likewise, it is just a shame that such energy and committment is only used to beat dead horses… This cartoon is from El Dia, November 18, 2011. On top it reads “Inter-cultural ecologist.” Current vice-minister for the environment is placing the non-approval, denied stamp on…
Viable road options instead of going through the TIPNIS
In case it was forgotten, this map was published on Los Tiempos, July 3, 2011. You can read more about these alternatives in the link below: https://bolivianthoughts.wordpress.com/2011/09/04/tipnis-has-six-bolivian-government-alternatives-to-consider/ There is a Law that prohibits ANY road through the TIPNIS, and there are these options… so why the government keeps playing the same old song? Get to…
TIPNIS in between scape goats and intangibility
These two cartoons pretty much outline what is going on in the lives of the TIPNIS people, after their 66-day-walk ordeal. From El Diario (11/14/11), a government official is pointing the “suspects” to the Attorney General and is saying: “Here Mr. Attorney..! One of these is the one who gave the order for the repression…
TIPNIS jailers, an editorial from Los Tiempos
Today’s editorial from Los Tiempos, regarding TIPNIS jailers: In order to obtain first-hand information, Los Tiempos organized the trip of a reporting team (a journalist, a photographer and a driver) to confirm, or otherwise, several reports on the construction of a road within the Indigenous Territory Isiboro Secure (TIPNIS), which would be underway by the indigenous sympathizers of the political…
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