... The contemporary organizations of lowland indigenous peoples emerged in the 1980s and coalesced around the Indigenous Confederation of Eastern Bolivia ( cidob ). The event that put cidob definitively on the national public stage was the March for Territory and Dignity, which traveled from...

... petroleum exports, rather than rely on agricultural and energy imports. The immediate plan proposed to do precisely this, with joint Bolivian-U.S. funding, through a march to the east—that is, by developing the lowland region of Santa Cruz. Key to the process was to develop a new road network linking...

... The ambulantes march on the plaza to demand their rights to sell on the streets. Meanwhile, conflicts emerge in the two federations. protest rights social movements ethnography writing ...

... Chapter 2 traces the early phase of the rebel movement, showing that, although its mythology claims that the column always intended to march into Brazil's interior, the inland route was accidental: once most of the original São Paulo rebels stopped fighting and went into exile, the column turned...