Bolivia, highway construction, Isidoro-Secure National Park, indigenous people, environmental impact, Evo Morales, coca growers, country integration, sustainable development, conservation
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The Bolivian government's plan to build a highway through the Isidoro-Secure National Park has sparked controversy among indigenous people, business leaders, and environmental defenders.
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[...] They also won, by obtaining more financial and technical resources, but they did not fight in the streets, with the physical risks that it implies, but rather on the web by exerting pressure on their democratic representatives. B. Written expression 1. Economic development is necessary to achieve an acceptable standard of living, which allows us to eat enough, have a comfortable roof, and develop our personalities through a thousand and one leisure activities. But growth for growth's sake is foolishness. On the one hand, it seems very difficult to produce consumer goods without harming nature. [...]
[...] He promoted this new "country integration plan" by focusing on improving the connection between Cochabamba and Beni, which will boost the transportation of local products, particularly wood and coca leaves, to their processing centers. However, the announcement did not seem to please anyone, as businesspeople criticized that the market was attributed to a foreign contractor despite the country proclaiming itself socialist and for the people, nor even the indigenous people who already fear for the destruction of nature. Even the Catholic Church, through Bishop Msr. Ricardo de Santamaría, condemned that Morales did not respect his vocation as defender of Mother Earth, and that this highway was 'one more to hell'. [...]
[...] The 3 documents refer to a construction project of a highway that crosses a natural park in Bolivia. 2. «calls into question the vocation of 'defender of Mother Earth' of Evo Morales" "The highway, the Government says, is essential for the country's integration" (l.12-13) 3. Those who are fighting against the project are the indigenous inhabitants of the area thousand indigenous people in rejection of the construction', l.15, 'the leaders of TIPNIS have expressed their fear'). To fight, they designed a poster with cut-out trees and animals, walked 'hundreds of kilometers to La Paz' and fought with the police and coca growers. [...]
