Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| over 1 year ago
Now, the Moxeno-Trinitario Indian and fellow protesters are threatening his plans to open up a region of the Amazon rain forest rich in energy, timber and other resources...Moyovire, 42, has been camped a few blocks from the government palace in La...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| over 1 year ago
Mr Morales made the announcement just ahead of a meeting with representatives of some 2,000 Indigenous people who entered La Paz on Wednesday (local time) after a two-month march from their ancestral homeland in the Amazon lowlands to press Mr...
The Guardian
| over 1 year ago
Evo Morales, second from the left, has lunch on Friday with leaders of the indigenous ethnic group that campaigned against the Amazon highway. Photograph: Jose Luis Quintana/Con/LatinContent/Getty Images Bolivia 's under-fire president, Evo Morales ,...
San Diego Union-Tribune
| over 1 year ago
Bolivia's President Evo Morales, second from the left, talks with indigenous leaders who are against the construction of a government planned highway during a meeting at the government palace in La Paz, Bolivia, Friday, Oct. 21, 2011. Associated...
Washington Post
| over 1 year ago
Text Size LA PAZ, Bolivia Bolivian President Evo Morales says he is abandoning plans to build a highway through a lowlands indigenous reserve after a clamor of opposition. Morales told reporters Friday after meeting with marchers that he will veto a...
San Diego Union-Tribune
| over 1 year ago
A protester is blocked by security from reaching Morillo Square in front of government palace in La Paz, Bolivia, Thursday Oct. 20, 2011. Protesters arrived to La Paz on Wednesday after an estimated 242-mile march from Trinidad that began Aug. 15 to...
United Press International
| over 1 year ago
Listen Tweet LA PAZ, Bolivia, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- Bolivian President Evo Morales faced renewed pressures from Amazonian environmental protesters who want him to drop a Brazilian-funded road cutting through an environmentally fragile but impoverished...
