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More than 500 Amazon indigena are marching to protest the further construction of a highway through the Isiboro-Secure National Park...home of several isolated tribes.
They are walking 500km/310 miles to La Paz... and will take a month to complete.
Brasil is funding and building the highway to access new Pacific ports.
President Evo Morales is being roundly criticized for a double standard over environmental issues.
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