AFP/ A.GROSBOIS
"Nearly 2,000 indigenous people made a triumphal entry into La Paz Wednesday at the end of a two-month march from the Amazon against a government plan to build a highway through their ancestral homeland.
The marchers, who set out in August and trekked 600 kilometers (370 miles) from the lowlands high into the Andes were greeted as heroes as they entered the city accompanied by groups of workers and students."
President Evo Morales has offered to meet with them.
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