Almost 2,000 indigenous and campesino men and women have been marching throughout Bolivia for over a month, to reach the capital of the country, La Paz, in order to stop constitutional reforms that would threaten their livelihoods. Their main demand is to stop controversial reforms and for the government to form a general assembly in which all the social groups of Bolivia would carry out modifications to the Constitution in a democratic fashion. The president has still not agreed to reject the “agrarian packet” which is a major problem for these peoples. The Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank and the United Nations Development Bank support this and other parts of the reforms in different degrees. The packet would increase social inequality and favor transnational corporations.
