Human Rights got very strong in Bolivia, as we went from military rule to democratic governments. The people who served under HR got a lot of prestige and political power, and many ended up in public office; unfortunately some of them like former Minister of Government/Interior was questioned for the police using excessive and brutal…
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TIPNIS regulation under fire and Criticism at Durbam Summit
Excerpts from today’s El Deber follows: The Cabinet (executive government ministers) vetoed the signing of the agreement with the TIPNIS indigenous people; they want to make a viable regulation of the law 180 that protects the Isiboro-Sécure Park and requested that the text establishes clearly that all commercial activity of their resources is prohibited. This…
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…
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