“On April 18 of this year, an indigenous woman went to a United Nations forum to denounce that her Government would be systematically violating the rights of indigenous communities in her country. In itself, this should not come as a surprise. Precisely this United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues exists because discrimination and exploitation of indigenous peoples by power groups in many regions of the world is very widespread. The big difference is that the government denounced was that of Bolivia, and its president, a leader of indigenous ancestry recognized worldwide and at the head of a supposedly indigenous government, had spoken two days before in front of the UN General Assembly with a speech to in favor of the rights of Mother Earth and with a proposal to change the name of the aforementioned Forum from “Indigenous Issues” to “Indigenous Rights”. See the rest of this Spanish-language blog entry by Dr. Daniel Robison, Professor of Practice at Future Generations University and long-time resident of Rurrenbaque here.