Monday, 15 August 2011

Por la vida, los derechos indígenas y el medio ambiente

Esta mañana 15 de Agosto 2011 los pueblos Indigenas de las tierras bajas de Bolivia vuelven a marchar en defensa de sus derechos, de sus tierras, de su existencia. Pero esta vez hay una importante novedad: marchan para defenderse de un gobierno "indigenista", el de Evo Morales. El defensor de la Pacha Mama ha decidido que no importa lo que opinan los pueblos originarios, la carretera que cortará el Territorio Indigena Parque Nacional Isiboro Secure (TIPNIS) se tiene que hacer, porque se tiene que hacer! Ha cambiado el color de los que mandan, pero el atropello de los pueblo indigenas sigue igual. Antes era la derecha, ahora es el MAS de Evo Morales. Donde está la diferencia??


Cerimonia inaugural de la Marcha

Los primeros pasos...Trinidad, 15-8-2011 horas 10:00. Hasta La Paz!!!!
Posted by Umberto at 23:05
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6 comments:

  1. choca15 August 2011 at 23:43

    pues la diferencia es que duele más

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  2. Allison17 August 2011 at 12:03

    Bien por los comunarios del tipnis! que a pesar de todo siguen buscando La Loma Santa
    Me encantan las fotos!

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  3. Horace16 November 2011 at 03:59

    Is this because Morales is the president of the Andean Indiginas, and these guys are from the wrong part of the country ?

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  4. Umberto17 November 2011 at 21:26

    Hi Horace!
    Yes, I think this is part of the problem. Morales himself was a "cocalero" (coca producer) and now the cocaleros want to move northward and colonize new land to increase the coca production. The road was mainly planned for them, who are the most fervent Morales supporters.

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  5. Horace29 November 2011 at 02:06

    Hi Umberto,

    thanks for the prompt reply, sorry it took me time to get back to you. So the cocaleros will colonize the lowlands ?

    BTW, I used to work in South America, I did field work in Acre. There were farmers there who were ploughing up circles with bits of pottery. The circles were quite big, they would run over several peoples farm plots. This was near Rio Branco.

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  6. Umberto29 November 2011 at 09:22

    Hi Horace,
    I don't know if the cocaleros will achieve their purpose of colonizing the southern part of the lowlands. The possibility for them to go northwards also depends on how well the coca would grow on seasonally flooded clay soils.
    Really nice the circles! I have visited two of them in Bolivian lowlands. You can see them on Google Earth, go to 423413E / 8533695N
    You can also download a 2009 paper about the acre ones here: http://www.eso-garden.com/specials/eldorado_found.pdf

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