Bolivian President Evo Morales has suspended the construction of a controversial highway through a portion of the Amazon following violent clashes between police and protestors concerned about the survival of one of Bolivia’s most biodiverse regions. Morales had planned to build a 190-mile (306-kilometer) highway running from the central department of Cochabamba to the Amazonian department of Beni. The road was to cross the Isiboro Sécure National Park and Indigenous Territory, a 3,860 square-mile (9,997-sq-km) preserve of cloud forest and rainforest that is home to thousands of species of plants and animals. Indigenous people from the Yuracaré, Moxeño and Chimané groups, which jointly hold the preserve, protested that the road would open the region up to oil companies and drug... [Log in to read more]