Bolivia: A New Battle Is Looming In TIPNIS

Bolivia: A New Battle Is Looming In TIPNIS   Ricardo Herrera, 2012   The indigenous communities that last year marched on La Paz to protest a highway through the heart of the Isiboro Sécure National Park and Indigenous Territory, or TIPNIS, now feel outraged and, above all, cheated.   Their anger is directed at President Evo Morales, promoter of Law 222. Enacted Feb. 9, it provides for consultation with TIPNIS inhabitants in order to obtain approval from them to resume work on...

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