Bishops clash with Evo Morales over protection of indigenous land

Church leaders in Bolivia are opposing a controversial new law that strips protection from a national park and indigenous territory. The measure, signed into law by President Evo Morales in mid-August, opens the Isiboro Secure National Park and Indigenous Territory, known as TIPNIS for its Spanish initials, to highway construction and other development. Bishop Eugenio Coter of Pando, an Amazonian...

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