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Weekly Report - 28 July 2011 (WR-11-30)

BOLIVIA: The road to more trouble

With the dust yet to settle over President Evo Morales’s U-turn on genetically modified (GM) foods [WR-11-26], Morales is yet again under pressure to defend his commitment to the environment, autonomy and indigenous rights, the three core planks of the 2009 plurinational constitution. The president’s insistence on forging ahead with a major highway project, which would cut through an indigenous territory and national park, Isiboro Sécure (Tipnis), in the Cochabamba region, has angered his restive support base, which has spent much of the year out on the streets in protest at official policy (including the minimum wage settlement and the so-called gasolinazo, a failed government attempt to scrap state fuel subsidies).

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