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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Scalating crime rates in Bolivia
This cartoon is from El Diario, 11/11/11. It portrays an almost general perception of Bolivian citizens regarding police effectiveness while combating the crime. Here, a recently mugged woman is shouting “get him, get him!…” as the robber wonders in between puzzled overweight policemen. Police needs a major re-engineering to cope with crime. Crime rates are…
TIPNIS update as of October 14, 2011
The TIPNIS protest-walk has started walking up, to the highlands. The group started walking today around 6am, they are marching from Yolosa (69 kilometers away from La Paz city) and intend to reach Sacramento town. A leader from the Beni Indigenous People (CPIB), Wilma Mendoza is asking for solidarity to the organizations that are supporting this…
Bolivia: scape goats for hire… look for the government
Ministers Sacha Llorenti and Carlos Romero are the “Pilates” of the day, they claim they were not responsible for the violent police brutality against the TIPNIS protest-walk group. They also said current Bolivian president is not responsible… and blamed vice-minister for Interior Regime and Police, Marcos Farfan, who was let go today. The Central Union of…
TIPNIS: sorrow and pain among its families
After the violent police intervention, families are beginning to reunite, tears, sorrow and frustration have cluttered Bolivia. There are still some children wondering out there… this picture was taken by Max Toranzos and appeared tonite in El Deber’s website. This picture (Pagina Siete) shows how La Paz citizens expressed their support with the TIPNIS people and repudiated…
Rurrenabaque forced TIPNIS people’s freedom!
Around 280 indigenous people were captured by the police yesterday afternoon and night. They were forced to embark in buses and other vehicles. They were held captive in the Rurrenabaque airport, waiting for a military plane to arrive, a plane with a 40 seat capacity was there (indigenous people were going to be sent to an unknown location) and…
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