When your re-election actually depends on it. Sadly for Evo, he doesn't lead an American style democracy.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."
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Sometimes It Pays Off
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