Security & Strategic Review - December 2012 (ISSN 1741-4202)

The Indian communities of the Tipnis territory in Bolivia’s Amazonia, who staged huge protest marches last year against a highway project on which they had not been consulted, had a change of mind in recent months and overwhelmingly approved it and the repeal of a law that had declared their reserve ‘intangible’ — or so the government has declared. The Tipnis communities say that the ‘consultation’ backing that claim was manipulated from the start, and some observers concur. They have struck ‘strategic alliances’ with Amazonian Indians in Ecuador and  Brazil to continue their struggle.

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