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The identity of Bolivia’s indigenous people, who were historically excluded from political, social, and economic life, is beginning to be seen as a synonym for confrontation, violence, and ethnic aggressiveness.
Indonesia argues that a nation’s right to control all information on locally discovered viruses should be protected through the same mechanisms that the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization uses to guarantee poor countries’ rights of ownership and patents on the seeds of its indigenous plants.
This useful policy reduces exploitative practices that sometimes enable multinational corporations and wealthy governments to obtain outrageous profits from indigenous agriculture.
It must be rooted in the indigenous society and bear its characteristics, not be imposed from abroad.
But prosecutors recently convicted the former head of a special investigations unit of the National Police for his leadership of the 1980 siege of the Spanish embassy, which killed dozens of students, diplomats, and indigenous activists.
Japan and Korea demonstrated that democracy could be combined with indigenous values in Asia.
The most effective advocates for democratic change are not American or European officials, but citizens of the region who understand Western virtues as well as flaws - and can adapt them to indigenous conditions to press for social change.
Today, Russian federal forces are trying to separate common people from the bandits by entrusting the powers of self-government and security in Chechen settlements to indigenous Chechens.
While its past treatment of its indigenous population has undoubtedly been problematic, it has had the courage and maturity to acknowledge unpleasant truths.
Never mind that industrial policies are a time-tested strategy for developing countries seeking to avoid the dreaded middle-income trap by shifting from imported to indigenous innovation.
Global demand for natural resources is growing, and indigenous people are receiving little protection from those who would destroy their land, forests, and rivers.
Calls for the government to recognize indigenous peoples’ demand for legal title to their ancestral lands have gone unheeded.
But lax laws, poor enforcement, endemic corruption, and weak land rights for Peru’s 300,000 indigenous people threaten to thwart good intentions.
Securing indigenous rights to land is one of the most effective ways to curb deforestation, but the Peruvian government is sitting on unprocessed claims to 20-million hectares.
It is also rich in traditional knowledge, especially knowledge associated with indigenous and medicinal plants.
Third, build the case for supporting indigenous science and technology .
And, indeed, though immigrants represent about 10% of Spain’s population, immigration is simply not a contentious issue anywhere in the country – perhaps partly because a large share come from Latin America, and thus share cultural and linguistic traits with indigenous Spaniards.
Offering real jobs to build an indigenous workforce is good business.
Europeans carried diseases to the Americas in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries that destroyed up to 95% of the indigenous population.
A few months ago, Evo Morales became Bolivia‘s first democratically elected indigenous head of state.
Indigenous groups constitute 62% of Bolivia’s population, and those with mixed blood another 30%, but for 500 years Bolivians had been ruled by colonial powers and their descendants.
Well into the twentieth century, indigenous groups were effectively deprived of a vote and a voice.
At one level, Asian history has been dominated by rival elites from China, "Turkestan," India, Persia, "Arabia", Japan, and Java (to name but a few examples) who claimed to lead separate indigenous cultural entities.
In any case, they never claim to be indigenous to any particular locale, not even in Singapore, where ethnic Chinese make up three-quarters of the population.
Hundreds of years ago, many African kings effectively engaged with the West’s rising imperial powers to halt the growth of indigenous industry in pre-colonial Africa.
Within a year of the end of the war there were indigenous administrations, within two years elections.
Moreover, it has a strong private sector, and it lacks the angry indigenous peoples and the “Jurassic left” that populates Bolivia.
And that would have been the case with the Colombian accord, which addresses a vast array of social and economic issues, including problems affecting indigenous communities, gender equality, gay rights, and the millions of people displaced by more than a half-century of fighting.
The reality is that all countries use degrees of government support for their indigenous technology industries, although China uses the most.
But, unfortunately, many countries still remain far from achieving them, and, even in countries that have made substantial progress, some groups – including indigenous peoples, residents of slums or remote areas, religious or other minorities, and people with disabilities – are consistently left out.
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