The Bolivian government and representatives of Amazon native protesters reached an agreement Monday ending two months of protests that have eroded support for President Evo Morales.
The Bolivian government and representatives of Amazon native protesters
reached an agreement Monday ending two months of protests that have eroded
support for President Evo Morales.
Morales announced Friday he was scrapping a hugely controversial plan to build
a highway through an Amazon ecological reserve that triggered widespread
protests -- but the protesters had 15 other demands they wanted addressed.
Communications Minister Ivan Canelas announced that a deal had been reached on
all the protester demands following marathon negotiations that ended at dawn
Monday.
The lengthy talks allowed "all points to be resolved, with deadlines for
them to be fulfilled," added Fernando Vargas, a leader of the Amazon
indigenous protesters.
The Brazil-financed road project was to form part of a network linking
land-locked
Bolivia
to
both the Pacific through
Chile
and the
Atlantic
through
Brazil
.
Some 2,000 protesters, who set out in August and trekked 600 kilometers (370
miles) to La Paz, were met as heroes as they entered the city in the high Andes
and made their way to camp out near the presidential palace.
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