Bolivia cancels controversial Amazon highway

[The Northerner]

Source: Agence France-Presse

LA PAZ — Bolivian President Evo Morales announced on Friday he was scrapping a controversial plan to build a highway through an Amazon ecological reserve that has triggered widespread protests.

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).

"Therefore, the issue of the TIPNIS has been resolved," Morales said. "This is governing by obeying the people."

Morales made the announcement just ahead of a meeting with representatives of some 2,000 indigenous people who entered La Paz on Wednesday after a two-month march from their ancestral homeland in the Amazon lowlands to press Morales to cancel the project.

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[EFerrari]

1. Good for Evo. nt

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Good news!

Now, if we could just get Obama to listen to US on that oil pipeline ...

[Kennah]

3. If elected leaders keep representing the people and their interests, this is going to catch on.

[TBF]

4. K&R nt

[bvar22]

5. Way to Go, EVO!

One of my favorite World Leaders.
The Populist Reforms Sweeping across South/Central America give me "hope" for the World.

"The worst enemy of humanity is U.S. capitalism. That is what provokes uprisings like our own, a rebellion against a system, against a neoliberal model, which is the representation of a savage capitalism. If the entire world doesn't acknowledge this reality, that nation states are not providing even minimally for health, education and nourishment, then each day the most fundamental human rights are being violated."
----Bolivian Reform President Evo Morales

FDR said much the same thing in 1944 with his Economic Bill of Rights,
but FDR and THAT "Democratic Party" are long dead.
It was killed in the 80s by the "Centrists".
We either find a way to resurrect the Old Democratic Party,
or we will have to build another one.

Our neighbors in Latin America have given us a Blue Print for "change".
What they have accomplished is nothing short of near Bloodless Revolutions.


VIVA Democracy!!!
I hope we get some here soon!


Solidarity99!
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[COLGATE4]

6. Evo can read the writing on the wall...

[bitchkitty]

7. Writing on the wall?

He hears the voices of the people who put him into office.

[pitohui]

9. lowland indigenous didn't put him into office

and some of them are irate that former parks and traditional homes of the lowland indigenous were looking to be distributed to the highland indigenous who did vote for him

sounds like he made the right decision but it sure took him long enough

[Vidar]

8. Bravo Evo! Bolivia has a better President than the US, one who actually cares

for his people and the environment.

[Zorro]

10. Does it mean USAID and the CIA won?

Just a few short months ago many were loudly blaming them for agitating the protestors against this highway.

[COLGATE4]

11. Yea, it was all just a big CIA/AID/Illumanti/Masons/ (did I miss anybody?)

plot. You just are not seeing the nuances:sarcasm:

[Zorro]

12. Well...

You did leave out the Catholic Church, the Girl Scouts of America, and Alvaro Uribe...

They're all part of the conspiracy against Evo, I tells ya....

[bitchkitty]

13. Why don't you tell us? n/t