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The history of Native Americans
in Bolivia
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The history in general of Native Ameicans
in the Andean Region
- Making the Leap from Local Mobilization to National
Politics
- By Xavier Albo, NACLA Report on the Americas,
March-April 1996. Lowlanders March to La Paz protesting
logging on indigenous lands and demanding legal rights to these
lands, are joined by Ayamara highlanders. Ideological significance
of the solidarity of different ethnic groups from Andes and
Amazon. Progress since the 1990 mobilitzation. The Popular
Participation Law.
- Mensaje de Rigoberta Menchu Tum a los Pueblos Indigenas
de Bolivia
- 23 September 1996. Las demandas de los pueblos indigenas de Bolivia,
que son en gran parte demandas de los pueblos indigenas del mundo,
sometidos a condiciones inhumanas de explotacion e injusticia, de
discriminacion, racismo e intolerancia y que los coloca en
condiciones de vida lamentables, deben llamar la atenci'on de
las autoridades bolivianas. Appended is a declaration by Rigoberta,
ante las acciones contra la corrupcion y la impunidad (in Spanish).
- Gobierno Otorga Concesiones Forestales en
Territorios Indigenas
- From the Asociacion Ecologica del Oriente, 20 August 1997.
- The indigenous movement is threatening a
blockade of the capital La Paz
- From Earl Gilman, Workers Democracy Network, Socorro Obrero
Sindical, El Nuevo Topo, [15
July 2001]. Conference of indigenous leaders demands the
government drop charges of
armed uprising
against
Felipe Quispe. The entry of the military in Huarina; the
forced lifting of the blockade has enraged the peasants on
the pampa. The Red Ponchos
in La Paz, The secretary
of The Confederation of Peasant Workers of Bolivia
(CSUTB) says rural teachers and transport workers are
supporting the movement.
