Action page Project Amazon

  Stop the highway in Bolivia!

The issue: Evo Morales, the first South American indigenous president seems to no longer be living up to his promises to protect native people from developers. Or is it perhaps because Ama-zon people are not Andes people like him? Whatever the reason, he wants to persue a highway throught the Amazon forest, a project that is financed by Brazil and will go right though one of

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of Bolivia's most beautiful national parks, Territorio Indígena y Par-que Nacional Isobor  (Isoboro Indigenous Territory and National Park), also known as TIPNIS. Needless to say that apart from this area being very vulnarable this also is definately a betrayal of indigenous interests, but also a knee-jerking to Brazil, who always had plans for a ahigh through the Amazon, which only shows that having a native presi-dent is no guarantee for serving the inte-rests of native people. And even worse, protesters have been met with police violence, even though Morales left out a statement saying that he could never have ordered police violence against his own people.

at AVAAZ! The more signatures the better!

President Evo Morales of Bolivia

(AVAAZ also have their petitions in many other languages)