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Saturday, May 4, 2013

President Evo Morales of Bolivia USAID representative to Malaysia?

The President Of Bolivia Evo Morales (News and Us)


There is no mention of USAID, who manipulate and take advantage of our leaders. "
La Paz (News and Us)-President Evo Morales on Wednesday announced the expulsion of the representatives of the United States Development Agency (USAID) of Bolivia, as well as the institutions alleges that interfere with the domestic affairs of the country.

In a speech before the workmen firmly the hold May Day rallies, President of the populist left of South America's poorest country said USAID was in Bolivia for political purposes, not social.


He did not explain specifically how US agencies that intervene in Bolivia.


USAID has operated in the country since 1964.


Morales, who ruled since 2006, has been previously expelled the u.s. Ambassador and a representative of the Office of the U.S. Drug Eradication in 2008 for the same reason.


Bolivia's own State is known as a producer of coca leaf, which is the raw material of cocaine.


"There is no longer a USAID, manipulate and take advantage of our leaders," Morales said in a speech delivered at the Plaza de Armas, La Paz.


Morales said Bolivia was offended with the latest statement of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry that Latin America is called the "backyard" of the United States.


United States, he said, perhaps thinking that they can manipulate the politically and economically but it is past.


In Bolivia, the USAID help Bolivia in fixing the health care system as well as run a number of sustainable environment and development programs.


According to USAID, page stated that their main objective in that country is to increase agricultural productivity and food security, Bolivia as well as expand access to social services and increase competition among small and medium-sized companies.


In a speech Wednesday, Morales also announced a number of new rules that are designed to benefit the workers as well as remind the Government nationalised seven years in hydrocarbon sector, committed against dozens of oil companies in the country. (P012/M016)




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Monday, October 3, 2011

Bolivia highway protests spread

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28 September 2011 Last updated at 22:59 GMT A demonstrator wearing an Evo Morales mask and holding a chainsaw marches in La Paz, Bolivia Demonstrators expressed their anger at President Evo Morales for backing the road Tens of thousands of demonstrators in Bolivia have brought traffic to a standstill in central La Paz.

They were protesting against the construction of a highway which would pass through a nature reserve in the Amazon.

The Bolivian government says the road is essential for development and would encourage trade by linking remote communities to market towns.

But indigenous communities fear it could encourage illegal settlements.

Bolivia's largest labour union had called for a day of protest on Wednesday.

Public anger

Thousands blocked the streets of central La Paz, carrying banners opposing the road and criticising President Evo Morales.

One of the demonstrators told the Associated Press news agency that Evo Morales' government was "the worst and it should go because it attacked human beings, the indigenous compatriots who had given it their support, and now it's turned its back on them".

Many of the protesters called into question President Morales' commitment to indigenous rights and the protection of "Mother Earth", which he advocated during his election campaign.

President Morales has suspended work on the road until a referendum is held, but the furore over the construction and the government's handling of the protests has not abated.

Indigenous groups opposed to the road said on Wednesday they would resume their 500km (310-mile) march to La Paz.

Their trek was broken up by police firing tear gas on Sunday and protesters complained that "extreme violence" had been used.

Defence Minister Cecilia Chacon resigned in protest at the police action.

Interior Minster Sacha Llorenti and his deputy Marcos Farfan stepped down on Tuesday.

They had defended the break-up of the march, but denied ordering the use of force.

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Friday, September 30, 2011

Bolivia stops work on Amazon road

27 September 2011 booth 07: 31 GMT Protesters clash with police officers in La Paz, Bolivia on Monday allegations of police violence against demonstrators triggered further protests in the Bolivian cities of Bolivian President Evo Morales work on a motorway has suspended built in the Amazon, in national furore about the way against the street was treated.

On Sunday police fired, tear gas and hundreds of activists, staging a demonstration against the road rounded up.

Stop a Minister in protest and Mr Morales condemned the action, when he announced the project suspension.

Now he says that he decide on the future of local regions will allow for the road.

"It must... decide so the two provinces [Cochabamba and Beni] involved in a national debate" In the meantime the project is exposed to, "Mr Morales said, according to Reuters news agency."

He has not specified, as the two provinces would decide on Sunday but he said that a referendum could be held — although Government sources say this could be at least six months to organize.

The problem raised anti-Government protests in Cochabamba, Beni, and La Paz - where thousands of demonstrators, mostly college students, to the Government Palace Quemado gathered.

Barricades

The proposed 300 km would one link (190) Street, funded by Brazil, Brazil to Pacific ports in Chile and Peru.

Mr Morales says, the way is for Bolivia's development, but it runs through a rainforest preserve and its construction is bitter against indigenous inhabitants.

Witnesses said that about 500 police surrounded the demonstrators

About 1,000 demonstrators were 500 km March to the capital La Paz provide, when they were stopped by police on Sunday in the Yucumo region.

Police forced protesters on buses, but hundreds of native lit fires on the streets, to force the authorities to the airport in Amazon town Rurrenabaque detour.

But residents blocked it the start and runway with burning tires and barricades and police were forced to free the prisoners.

Protesters complain that "extreme violence" was used as the police in the demonstrators got Commons.

You say a child killed was and some protesters remain claims by Interior Minister Sacha Llorenti missing, who claimed that the police measures to prevent clashes with pro-government groups that try to stop the March approached was denied.

But this Declaration of demonstrators re-painted been.

"We do not understand why the Government in this brutal way acted", Rafael Quispe, one of the leading protest, told AFP.

"This is a Government which says that the indigenous population, but it has attacked them."



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Thursday, September 29, 2011

Bolivia anti-road march broken up

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26 September 2011 Last updated at 09:09 GMT Witnesses said about 500 police surrounded protesters, including woman and children, and set upon them with gas and clubs

Bolivian police have broken up a long-distance march by indigenous protesters who oppose plans to build a road through a rainforest reserve.

Officers wielding truncheons and firing tear gas moved in on the demonstrators' camp, taking people away in buses.

President Evo Morales says the road is vital for development but has offered to hold a referendum on the issue.

Hundreds of people set off last month to march to La Paz but were stopped at Yucomo, with 250km (155 miles) to go.

An estimated 500 police officers moved in late on Sunday afternoon on a camp set up by the marchers.

Protest leaders said dozens of people had been driven away and their whereabouts were unknown.

Local police chief Oscar Munoz said the people were being taken back to their hometowns.

The Bolivian ombudsman, Rolando Villena, criticised what he said was excessive use of force by the police.

"Injured children, disappeared mothers who didn't want to separate from their children - this does not talk well about our democracy. This is not democracy," he said.

Deforestation

The clashes came a day after protesters had briefly held the foreign minister, David Choquehuanca, forcing him to walk with them.

Mr Choquehuanca, who had come to negotiate with the protesters, said the fact that he was freed showed "they want to resolve matters through dialogue".

A worker with a chainsaw on the route of the controversial road in Bolivia. The road is already under construction

In an apparent bid to defuse tension, President Morales said on Sunday that he would put the road plan to a regional referendum.

"If they say yes, a study will be done to see where the best route for that road is, the most direct...and with the least environmental impact," Mr Morales said.

Plans for a road through the Isiboro-Secure Indigenous Territory and National Park - known by its Spanish acronym Tipnis - has divided opinion in Bolivia.

Indigenous people who live in the reserve say the highway would encourage illegal settlement and deforestation in their ancestral Amazon homeland.

Hundreds of protesters set off in mid-August to walk 500km from Trinidad to Bolivia's main city, La Paz, to voice their opposition.

But others, including Mr Morales, say the road would help bring basic services to isolated communities, and also boost the local economy by giving farmers better access to markets.

The road, which would link the highland city of Cochabamba with San Ignacio de Moxos in the Amazon lowlands, is being funded by Brazil and built by a Brazilian company.

The march, which set is the latest in a series of challenges Mr Morales is facing from indigenous groups and social movements that helped make him Bolivia's first indigenous president.



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