Bolivia minister quits over road protest row 
Eye on the Amazon, 03-October-2011: A protest march by Bolivian indigenous peoples turned violent on Sunday the 25th as 500 Bolivian police tear-gassed, fired upon with rubber bullets, and beat a group of hundreds of protesters.
Bolivia: Investigate Crackdown on Protesters
HRW, 03-October-2011: (New York) Bolivian authorities should ensure a prompt, thorough, and impartial investigation of alleged abuses on September 25, 2011, by police against indigenous protesters outside of Yucumo, in Beni Department, Human Rights Watch said today.
Bolivia: Stop the Amazon Highway
| Avaaz, 03-October-2011: On Sunday, Bolivian police used tear gas and truncheons to crack down on indigenous men, women and children who are marching against an illegal mega-highway that will slice through the protected Amazon rainforest. |  |
Bolivia highway protests spread, paralysing La Paz
| BBC News, 28-September-2011: Tens of thousands of demonstrators in Bolivia have brought traffic to a standstill in central La Paz. They were protesting against the construction of a highway which would pass through a nature reserve in the Amazon. But indigenous communities fear it could encourage illegal settlements. |  |
The Morales Presidency takes an ugly turn
Jim Shultz - The Democracy Center, 28-September-2011: In 2005, Sacha Llorenti, the President of Bolivia's National Human Rights Assembly, wrote a forward for our Democracy Center report on an incident here two years previously, known as Febrero Negro'. The IMF had demanded that Bolivia tighten its economic belt and President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada complied by proposing a new tax on the poor. His action set off a wave of protest and government repression that left 34 people dead. Llorenti wrote of the government's repression, "Those days refer to an institutional crisis, state violence, and her twin sister, impunity."
Bolivians to resume road march amid confrontation fears
| BBC News, 20-September-2011: Indigenous protesters in Bolivia say they are resuming a march against a new road, a day after calling a temporary halt amid fears of confrontation. They have been walking for weeks in protest at government plans to build a road through their land. |  |
Tipnis March Stalled, Clash With Authorities
Bolivia Weekly, 20-September-2011: Tension is growing between the government and marchers from the Isiboro Sécure National Park Indigenous Territory (Tipnis). Yesterday, two leaders of the Assembly of the Guaraní People (AGP), Margali Vargas and Pablo Ibáñez, were arrested by police and accused of stealing a truck while they were buying food in Yucomo. They were transferred to La Paz.
An indigenous struggle against Morales
Socialist Worker, 07-September-2011: MORE THAN 500 indigenous Bolivians are on the march from the eastern city of Trinidad towards the capital city of La Paz--a distance of more than 300 miles--to protest the construction of an interstate highway that would cut TIPNIS, a protected park and indigenous territory that belongs to the Yuracaré, Moxeño and Chimán peoples, in half.
Bolivian Marchers to Dialogue with Government
Prensa Latina, 29-August-2011: After repeated calls by the Bolivian Government to talk, the demonstrators against the construction of an inter-departmental highway have decided to sit at the negotiating table and are awaiting the ministers to start the dialogue, reported Radio Red Nueva Patria here Sunday.
Evo Morales plays a double game on Bolivia's environment
| Guardian, 29-August-2011: Giant mapajo trees rise imposingly above the canopy, the howls of monkeys reverberate in the distance, and rare jaguars roam unconcealed in the undergrowth: the Bolivian jungle is a place of unspoilt natural beauty. Rated eighth in the world for its biodiversity, more than half of Bolivia is still covered by pristine forests. But what for some is picturesque remoteness, is for others the curse of underdevelopment. |  |
If you don't like it here, move on
| Oeco Amazonia, 29-August-2011: The Bolivian government of Evo Morales is about to build the Vila Tunari – San Ignacio de Moxos highway, that will cut through down the middle of a National Park and the Isiboro – Sécure (TIPNIS) Territory of the Indigenous People. This part of the Amazon Rainforest is very fragile (no wonder it is protected), but aside from the ecological damages, the construction work can be a historical and social disaster. |  |
Evo Morales: Enviro Saint or Sinner?
| Mother Jones, 29-August-2011: With his Aymara heritage and anti-imperial outlook, Evo Morales has often been portrayed as one of the developing world's leading voices on global warming. Back in 2009, the Bolivian president shook the Copenhagen climate change summit when he blamed rising temperatures on capitalism and suggested that, without drastic changes, Africa would "suffer a holocaust. In December, at a conference in Mexico, he said governments that avoided emissions reductions would be guilty of "ecocide." |  |
Bolivia: Govt Seeks Dialogue with Indigenous Protesters
Prensa Latina, 19-August-2011: A high-level government commission will attempt to engage in talks on Friday with indigenous Bolivians who have been marching for five days to oppose a road project. The commission, composed of Public Works Minister Walter Delgadillo and Deputy Minister of Coordination with Social Movements Cesar Navarro, were in San Ignacio de Moxos, where protesters organized the meeting.
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