Weekly Report - 25 August 2011 (WR-11-34)

Bolivia’s President Evo Morales has called for coca-grower supporters to seduce indigenous Yuracaré women to gain support for the controversial road through the indigenous territory and national park, Isiboro Sécure (Tipnis) [WR-11-30]. The Coordinadora de la Mujer, an umbrella group of 30 women’s rights organisations, reacted furiously and called for a public apology. Morales’ professed commitment to women’s rights had already come under scrutiny after another classic “Evada” (one of the hundred most outrageous quotes by Morales, collected by journalist and poet Alfredo Rodríguez and since published as a book): “when I come to villages and women get pregnant, Evo delivers”. This was a reference to the flagship government social programme known as “Bolivia changes, Evo delivers”.

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