Indigenous Leaders Sign Agreement With Government for Consultation on TIPNIS Highway

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UPDATED JULY 9, 2012: Marchers who walked for two months to reach Bolivian President Evo Morales' doorstep in protest of a road that would cut through the National Park and Indigen...

Video: Indigenous Marchers Camped in La Paz, Seek Meeting With Evo Morales

Sara Shahriari
July 04, 2012
More than 1,000 indigenous marchers entered the Bolivian city of La Paz on June 27, after a police strike that delayed the march ended early in the morning...

Indigenous Delay March as Police Strike Grips Bolivia

Sara Shahriari
June 26, 2012
Update June 27, 2012: More than 1,000 indigenous marchers entered the Bolivian city of La Paz today, after a police strike that delayed the march ended early in the morning...

Massive Indigenous Protest in Panama Spurs Accord With Government

Rick Kearns
February 10, 2012
Indigenous protestors and the Panamanian Government reached an accord on February 7 to halt massive nationwide protests against mining and development laws that had shut down a maj...

Bolivian Police Tear Gas Indigenous Marchers (Update)

Sara Shahriari
September 27, 2011

UPDATE September 27, 2011: Bolivia's President Evo Morales has frozen construction on a

Peru Confrontations Leave Three Dead, Police Averts Massacre

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April 11, 2011
Confrontations between a group of some 1,200 police who had been deployed to try to contain growing popular unrest and some 4,000 farmers who opposed a copper mine project left thr...

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