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Indigenous People take over mining firm in the wake of Climate Change conference
With the Global People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of the Mother Earth set to begin in Cochabamba, Bolivia, a group of Indigenous people have occupied the offices of a mining firm in the southeastern province of Potosi near the Chilean border. The occupation began several days ago, on April 12, with roughly [...]
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Evo Morales distributes land to the Guarani
Bolivian President Evo Morales has distributed thousands of hectares of land to Guaraní communities from Alto Parapetí, in the eastern Bolivian province of Santa Cruz. At a ceremony this past weekend, Evo Morales delivered 38 thousand hectares to the Guarani, opening a process of land allocation that will end in December 2009. The land was [...]
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Bolivian Opposition Receiving US Tax Dollars
Impunity Watch has just published a report confirming that right-wing opposition groups in Bolivia have been receiving US Tax Dollars. According to the report, the US quietly led a "USAID political party reform project" that ultimately sought to strengthen the opposition so that they could "serve as a counterweight" to the so-called "radical" MAS (Movimiento [...]
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Oppose the US-backed civil coup in Bolivia!
Please take a moment to sign the petition in support of President Evo Morales and the Bolivian people, and to circulate it widely among left and progressive individuals and activists. The petition is at: http://www.gopetition.com/online/21871.html A "civil coup" has begun in Bolivia, aimed at destabilising the government of President Evo Morales and destroying the peaceful [...]
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Underreported Struggles #16, July 2008
Indigenous peoples and farmers faced multiple attacks in Guatemala last month; while in Brazil, the government began preparing to station military forces on indigenous lands circling the border. In Canada, the Takla Lake First Nation continued blocking access roads on their territory, and in Fafak, 46 West Papuans were arrested, beaten, and humiliated for holding [...]
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Indigenous Bolivians Declare Emergency Over Brazil Dams
Indigenous People, local communities and labour groups in Bolivia and Brazil have declared an emergency in response to the Madeira River Hydroelectric Complex, a series of four dams along the Madeira river. The Activist group, Root Force, explains that "Bolivia has [already] denied permission for two of the dams, one to be built entirely in [...]
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Bolivia Ratifies Indigenous Autonomies
Presna Latina reports that the Bolivian government has "ratified its recognition of indigenous autonomies, in accordance with a November 2007 ruling and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples." Making the announcement on Saturday, Vice president Alvaro Garcia explained that "the country's new political Constitution guarantees Bolivian native people the right to [...]
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