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Bolivian indigenous leader Adolfo Chavez of CIDOB (Confederacion Indigena del Oriente Boliviano) is seen near the entrance to Yucumo, where police are preventing indigenous people from marching to avoid a confrontation with settlers of Yucumo, Sept 22, 2011. Amazonian ethnic groups living in the Isiboro Secure territory, known by its Spanish acronym TIPNIS, are completing a 370-mile (595-km) march from Trinidad, in the northern Beni province, to La Paz to protest against a projected 185-mile-long (298-km-long) highway that will bisect the protected park in the Amazon forest, activists leading the march said. The protesters, who have a list of demands apart from their rejection of the highway project being financed by Brazil, are entering a rural region with strong sentiments for Morales, raising the possibility of confrontations on their way to La Paz. The march is into its 37th day. [Photo/Agencies]
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