It is 9:16 and El Deber’s website reports that the protest-walk has decided to enter San Ignacio de Moxos, the people blockading the access remain blockading, please be alert as I will tweet developments as they evolve… Pablo Ortiz reports for El Deber. Along the article, I am inserting a number of cartoons that portray…
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TIPNIS protest-walk progress, May 2, 2012
The following article was written by Pablo Ortiz, photos by Hernan Virgo, published in El Deber: “Colleagues, we also celebrate the 1st of May [labor day], because although we are not wage-earners, we are workers, are free laborers. Why is that we petty our territory, why we defend the TIPNIS, because we do not want…
TIPNIS protest-walk in defense of indigenous rights and a National Park, has started!!
Lily Soruco reports for El Deber’s website: More than 400 indigenous people departed from Trinidad in route to the city of La Paz. Indigenous people trying to prevent the construction of a road through the indigenous territory and the Isiboro-Sécure National Park (TIPNIS), today they marched around the main square before embarking on the journey…
Blockades and threats of violence against TIPNIS’ defenders and the Ninth protest-walk, April 2012
TIPNIS’ 9th protest-walk is under fire, this cartoon is from El Dia, March 27, 2012. It reads “Beating without responsible ones” and below that: “the chain of command was broken!” so that the cruel, unnecessary beating from the police force to the 8th protest-walk of last year’s. No one takes the responsibility for that atrocious…
TIPNIS protest-walk update, as of April 18, 2012
As reported in El Deber’s website: The indigenous leader lamented that a week away from the mobilization, the President Evo Morales along with the Acting Governor of Beni Haisen Rivera, continue giving “gifts” to the villagers that inhabit the Isiboro Sécure National Park; looking after “splitting” the indigenous people and promote the failure of the…
An update: TIPNIS April 25, 2012 protest-walk is well underway, nothing will stop it!!
Pagina Siete reports about the struggle of the TIPNIS and CIDOB rights against current government’s policies: Yesterday, the IV National Commission of the CIDOB ratified the realization of the IX indigenous march from April 25th, despite the fact that the Brazilian company OAS will cease construction of the Villa Tunari-San Ignacio de Moxos road through…
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