15 August 2011

BOLIVIA : 500 Indigena March To Protest Completing A New Amazon Highway.

                                                            BBC


     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.