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Bolivia says to decide highway's fate by consulting tribes

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Publication Date: 
July 29, 2012
Author: 
David Mercado
News Source: 
Reuters
OROMOMO, Bolivia (Reuters) - Bolivia's leftist government opened a consultation process on Sunday with indigenous people to decide the fate of a proposed highway that has drawn sharp criticism on environmental grounds.
 

The government will take until mid-September to consult 69 communities in the Isiboro Secure Indigenous Territory and National Park (TIPNIS), where work on the middle section of the 185-mile(300 km) road has been halted for nearly a year.
 

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