Bolivia: Morales Cancels Controversial TIPNIS Road Project

Bolivia: Morales Cancels Controversial TIPNIS Road Project   Bolivian president Evo Morales, in a statement today, said he would respond to protesters’ demands by scrapping an Amazon road project planned to go through a national park and an indigenous territory.   Morales told reporters he had sent an amendment to Congress, controlled by government supporters, halting the plans for the road through the Isiboro Secure National Park and Indigenous Territory (TIPNIS).   The protests lasted two...

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