A coalition created by a demand for land is splintered by a competition for territory | Chapter 4 of "A Perfect Storm in the Amazon"
The political movement that brought Evo Morales to power incorporated a latent conflict between highland and lowland Indigenous communities. The lowland nations are intent on recuperating their ancestral territories, which had been appropriated by families of European extraction or, more recently, allocated to timber companies as long-term forest concessions. The promise of recovering these lands […]
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