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Weekly Report - 17 September 2015 (WR-15-37)
BOLIVIA: Morales criticised over indigenous rights
A “worrying superficiality and lack of objectivity in the treatment of an issue… important and transcendental for the plurinational state”. This was the response by Bolivia’s human rights ombudsman Rolando Villena to a ruling by Bolivia’s constitutional court (TC) rejecting his appeal against two articles of a November 2014 supreme decree (DS 2195) regarding compensation for hydrocarbons concessions in indigenous territory. Villena argues that the decree raises serious doubts over the commitment of President Evo Morales - under pressure to boost hydrocarbons production amid falling international prices – to indigenous rights. It comes as tensions between indigenous groups (a core Morales support base) and the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) administration remain high over the latter’s insistence on pushing ahead with hydrocarbon exploitation projects.
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