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Weekly Report - 22 April 2010 (WR-10-16)

BOLIVIA: Morales challenged as Bolivia hosts global summit

Billed as the grassroots alternative to last year's UN talks in Copenhagen, the “World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth" took place this week in the central city of Cochabamba. While the government of President Evo Morales used the summit as a global rallying point for greater action on climate change, it coincided with mass protests over a major mining project in the western region of Potosí. It also served as a platform for local indigenous groups critical of Morales's policy vis-í -vis mining and extraction of natural resources, once again highlighting the inherent contradictions in his government's declared priority of driving economic growth through developing extractive industries at the same time as professing commitment to the environment.

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