Bolivia: Church aids indigenous people as they march towards capital

[struggle4progress]

Posted: Thursday, October 6, 2011 9:45 pm
Bolivia: Church aids indigenous people as they march towards capital
The Bishops in Bolivia have confirmed that they are encouraging parishes and religious communities to give humanitarian support to the indigneous groups who have resumed their march in the direction of La Paz to protest over plans to build a huge highway through their homeland. Among the one thousand strong marchers are many women, some of them pregnant, and children ... Representatives of the Social Pastoral Caritas Boliviana moved to the new Vicariate of Reyes to coordinate aid efforts for the marchers, who took refuge in parishes and religious houses in Yucumo, San Borja and Rurrenabaque before starting the march again. According to the testimony of protesters, there are still three people missing after the violent intervention of the police a week ago in Yucumo ... http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=19042

Bolivia: Archbishop meets environmental protesters camped outside cathedral
By: Claire Bergin
Posted: Wednesday, October 5, 2011 8:14 pm
Cardinal Julio Terrazas, Archbishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, met a group of Indigenous people who are on hunger strike, camped in front of the Cathedral of Santa Cruz, in solidarity with marchers protesting over plans to build a highway through their Indigenous Territory National Park Isiboro Secure (ITNPIS). The Cardinal blessed the crowd and said a solution must be found, "following the paths of justice and peace that the country wants, in order to build a country for everyone and a country where the common good and dignity of the human person is respected". The protest march began on 15 August with about 1,500 participants. On 25 September, several people were injured when riot police, using teargas tried to break up the march ... http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=19035

[xchrom]

1. Earth has erupted in Protest. nt

[darkstar3]

2. Kinda sounds to me like the news story is the protest.

[struggle4progress]

3. Some earlier DU threads:

Bolivia Amazon protesters resume Tipnis road march
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=5012754

Evo Morales, Bolivian President, Takes Dramatic Popularity Plunge
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=405&topic_id=55844

Evo Morales Expects to Talk with Indigenous Marchers
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=405&topic_id=55851

[LeftishBrit]

4. k&r

[tama]

5. Meanwhile in Peru

In one year 13 native shamans have been brutally murdered. Suspicions center on the extremist christian governor of the remote Amazonian province.