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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-11 06:44 PM
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Evo Morales Expects to Talk with Indigenous Marchers
La Paz, Oct 4.- Bolivian President Evo Morales expressed his willingness to receive at the Presidential Palace indigenous marchers protesting the construction of an inter-departmental road and now moving to the city of La Paz.

Morales said before starting the process of dialogue with the leaders of the mobilization, obligations must be met with the ministers of state in charge of meeting the specifications of 16 demands.

Morales had already accused the marchers of obstructing Judicial elections scheduled for October 16, an alert that was completed on Monday, when Adolfo Chavez, head of the mobilization, proposed to postpone those elections for November.

According to the radio station Erbol, Chavez admitted that the arrival of the march to the seat of government in defense of indigenous territory Isiboro Secure (Tipnis), a day before the vote, could create some problems ...

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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-04-11 06:45 PM
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1. Bolivia: Police attack indigenous marchers
by Dave Sewell

Bolivia’s left wing president Evo Morales was forced to apologise on Wednesday after police attacked an indigenous people’s march.

The protesters oppose the construction of a major highway through the TIPNIS Amazon rainforest reserve.

Some 1,500 protesters on a 300-mile march to the capital La Paz were ambushed by hundreds of police with teargas on Sunday.

Police carted marchers off in coaches aiming to fly them home and disperse the protest. This was thwarted when local people shut down two airports to free the marchers ...

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=26274
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