Bolivia: Indigenous Groups to March to La Paz in Protest of New Road

As Eduardo Avila recently reported ^[1] for Global Voices, the Bolivian government announced “a controversial project to build a new road that would go through the Indigenous Territory National Park Isiboro Sécure ^[2] (TIPNIS for its initials in Spanish).” Emily Achtenberg in the NACLA blog ^[3] now reports that “on August 15, representatives of three indigenous groups and their supporters will begin a 970-mile trek from Trinidad in the Bolivian lowlands to the highland capital of La Paz” to protest this project.