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Viewing cable 06LAPAZ3019, VICE MINISTER OF ENVIRONMENT DESCRIBES

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
06LAPAZ3019 2006-11-07 20:03 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy La Paz
VZCZCXYZ0009
RR RUEHWEB

DE RUEHLP #3019/01 3112003
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 072003Z NOV 06
FM AMEMBASSY LA PAZ
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 1224
INFO RUEHAC/AMEMBASSY ASUNCION 6257
RUEHBO/AMEMBASSY BOGOTA 3578
RUEHBR/AMEMBASSY BRASILIA 7439
RUEHBU/AMEMBASSY BUENOS AIRES 4700
RUEHCV/AMEMBASSY CARACAS 1950
RUEHPE/AMEMBASSY LIMA 2006
RUEHME/AMEMBASSY MEXICO 1873
RUEHMN/AMEMBASSY MONTEVIDEO 4150
RUEHQT/AMEMBASSY QUITO 4589
RUEHSJ/AMEMBASSY SAN JOSE 1576
RUEHSG/AMEMBASSY SANTIAGO 9168
RUCPDOC/DEPT OF COMMERCE WASHINGTON DC
RUEATRS/DEPT OF TREASURY WASHINGTON DC
RUEHC/DEPT OF INTERIOR WASHINGTON DC
UNCLAS LA PAZ 003019 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR WHA/AND LPETRONI AND OES/PCI LSPERLING 
BRASILIA FOR JSTORY AND LSTONER 
COMMERCE FOR JANGLIN 
TREASURY FOR SGOOCH 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: ECON PREL PGOV BL
SUBJECT: VICE MINISTER OF ENVIRONMENT DESCRIBES 
"COSMOCENTRIC-HOLISTIC" VISION 
 
REF: LA PAZ 2431 
 
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SUMMARY 
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1. (SBU) Bolivia's vice minister of environment recently 
described a "cosmocentric-holistic" vision of environmental 
management, declaring that the state should direct a 
collective development process to ensure shared, broadly 
beneficial access to natural resources.  The vice minister 
argued that indigenous groups should play a greater role in 
decision making and assume more responsibility for 
conservation and natural resource use.  Threats to 
biodiversity and once pristine lakes and rivers reportedly 
top the vice minister's list of concerns, but the vice 
ministry appears to lack the organizational and financial 
capacity to effectively address environmental issues. 
 
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A NEW, COSMOCENTRIC-HOLISTIC VISION 
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2. (SBU) Bolivian Vice Minister of Biodiversity, Forest 
Resources, and Environment Juan Carlos Iporre recently 
described a "cosmocentric-holistic" vision of environmental 
management, telling Econoff November 6 that the state should 
direct a collective development process to ensure shared, 
broadly beneficial access to natural resources.  According to 
Iporre, the state should be a "development patron" committed 
to extending social participation to the environmental realm, 
with the aim of ensuring that indigenous groups and the 
public enjoy access to natural resources, derive benefits 
from their use, and participate in the "intellectual and 
spiritual development" of the individual and community in 
harmony with nature. 
 
3. (SBU) The vice minister placed special emphasis on 
indigenous groups, arguing that they should play a greater 
role in decision making and assume more responsibility for 
conservation and natural resource use.  Iporre said he 
believed a "communitarian" model of decision making and 
environmental management was appropriate for Bolivia's new 
"social revolution," as it would allow for increased 
recognition of the special knowledge of indigenous groups and 
social movements.  The vice minister highlighted Bolivia's 
remarkable biodiversity, noting its position among the 15 
most biodiverse countries in the world, and argued that 
indigenous peoples' historical relationship to and intimate 
understanding of that diversity should enhance state-led 
efforts to sustainably harness natural resources for 
broad-based economic growth. 
 
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COMMENT 
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4. (SBU) Threats to biodiversity and once pristine lakes and 
rivers reportedly top Iporre's list of concerns, but the vice 
ministry appears to lack the organizational and financial 
capacity to effectively address environmental issues.  Iporre 
recognized, for example, that invasions of national parks and 
protected areas by landless peasants and other groups, 
including farmers and ranchers, pose serious threats to the 
survival of plant and animal species but lacked plans for 
stopping the incursions; having led a land-rights group in 
his hometown of Rurrenabaque, an isolated community in 
Bolivia's northwest, Iporre may have little inclination to 
confront the problem. 
 
5. (SBU) Iporre raised no objection to the GOB's late August 
threat to "nationalize" national parks and stood silently by 
 
while GOB officials talked of expelling non-governmental 
organizations and using the military to protect park borders 
(reftel); in response to critics' arguments that troops would 
do more harm than good, Iporre said nothing.  As he waits, 
land invasions continue, and risks to national parks 
increase.  Bolivian "colonists" have provided no evidence of 
enhanced environmental stewardship, and their land seizures 
will likely continue to threaten natural resources, 
particularly as conservation gives way to slash-and-burn 
agricultural techniques. 
 
6. (SBU) Plans for rehabilitating Lake Titicaca and the badly 
polluted Pilcomayo River, meanwhile, are largely absent; 
Iporre appears more concerned with resolving internal 
organizational issues than with addressing pressing 
environmental matters.  Many hope Iporre's 
"cosmocentric-holistic" vision allows for the natural 
resource conservation he claims to favor, lest the state's 
attempt to adopt "communitarian" principles destroy years of 
relatively successful environmental management.  Some fear, 
moreover, that rapidly modernizing indigenous groups may lose 
patience with Iporre's "cosmocentric" vision, particularly if 
it fails to generate concrete change in their daily lives; 
for the indigenous, the landless, and the dispossessed, 
"cosmocentric" may not necessarily be the way to go. 
GOLDBERG