Short video showing heated debate in San Francisco square in La Paz, Bolivia about TIPNIS. The debate is becoming increasingly polarised in Bolivia. Protests in Bolivia are hitting the international headlines again. This time the conflict is between Bolivia´s first indigenous government, led by President Evo Morales, and indigenous peoples. The controversy causing shockwaves at home and abroad is the plan by the government to build a highway through the middle of a national park that is also a recognised autonomous indigenous territory called TIPNIS (Isiboro Sécure National Park and Indigenous Territory).

Video originally uploaded on Youtube by dariokenner

http://boliviadiary.wordpress.com/2011/09/21/controversial-highway-plan-resis...