• Dolores Ochoa / AP

    Protesters hold flags of the indigenous movement as they walk at La Cumbre, Bolivia, as they advance toward the country's capital Tuesday, Oct. 18. Indigenous and environmentalist groups, began an estimated 242-mile march from Trinidad to La Paz on Aug. 15 to protest a government planned highway that would cut through the Isiboro-Secure Indigenous Territory National Park, home to 15,000 indigenous people. After a police crackdown on marchers on Sept. 25, Morales announced the suspension of the highway, saying he will let voters in the affected region decide its fate.

    Bolivians rebuke Morales in judicial ballot

    AP reports:

    Most Bolivian voters cast spoiled ballots in an election Sunday to choose national judges, according to unofficial polling results, handing a rebuke to President Evo Morales in a vote that had been seen as a test for the leftist leader.

    Morales' traditional base of Indian support appeared to hand him a setback, angered by his plans to build a $420 million highway through the Amazon and a subsequent police crackdown on protesters opposed to the road's construction.

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  • Aizar Raldes / AFP - Getty Images

    Aymara farmers, miners and unionists march in support of the government of President Evo Morales, in La Paz, on October 12. Bolivian lawmakers agreed Tuesday to postpone plans to build a highway through an Amazon nature preserve after months-long mass protests from indigenous people.

    Bolivian Indians march against highway as lawmakers agree to postponement

    AP reports:

    LA PAZ, Bolivia - Hundreds of indigenous activists opposed to plans to build a highway through an Amazon reserve resumed their march to the capital on Saturday, a week after a violent police crackdown.

    The march against the Brazil-funded highway through the Isiboro-Secure Indigenous Territory National Park in the eastern state of Beni began on Aug. 15. But it was halted Sept. 25 by police using clubs and tear gas in an operation that left dozens injured and led to the resignation of the defense and interior ministers.