02.11.2011
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climateadaptation:

Protesters force Bolivian president to cancel controversial Amazon highway. Huge win for environmentalists and Amazon protection.

• Brazilian funded highway would have sliced through pristine Amazonian jungle (orange on map)
• Would have displaced Aymara and Quechua highland Indians
• “Evo Morales, the president of Bolivia…bowed to public pressure after a two-month protest march by Amazon Indians.”
• Ironically, Evo Morales is an Aymara Indian, and is famously/controversially known as having been elected with landslide support of indigenous groups..

Sources: Al Jazeera, Bolivia Diary, Latin America Bureau

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