Saturday, October 22, 2011

Sometimes It Pays Off

Evo Morales, the president of Bolivia, has announced that he is scrapping plans to build a highway through a nature reserve in Bolivia's jungle lowlands, bowing to public pressure after a two-month protest march by Amazon Indians.

Morales did not abandon the idea of a highway through Bolivia linking Brazil with the Pacific coast, but said on Friday it would no longer cut through the pristine Isiboro-Secure Indigenous Territory National Park, or TIPNIS.

"And so the matter is resolved," Morales told reporters. "For me, this is called governing by obeying the people."

  alJazeera

When your re-election actually depends on it. Sadly for Evo, he doesn't lead an American style democracy.

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