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Marcial Fabricano, a Mojeño Trinitario leader in Bolivia's lowland indigenous movement, age 66, has entered into intensive care for presumed COVID. paginasiete.bo/sociedad/2020/5/3/ingresa-terapia-intensiva-historico-dirigente-indigena-marcial-fabricano-254413.html
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Fabricano, from the Isiboro Sécure territory (TIPNIS) was spokesman for the 1990 March for Territory and Dignity and has had a controversial career as a leader ever since. A detailed account through 2011 is included here: prensabolivariana.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/coraje-tipnis.pdf
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The march won indigenous communities their title to the territory. Later, he founded the breakaway Subcentral Securé and was publicly repudiated by community members for corruption and divisiveness in 2006 and 2009.
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Fabricano reunited with the TIPNIS communities and participated in the 2012 march in defense of the territory. anteriorportal.erbol.com.bo/noticia/indigenas/26082013/dirigente_del_tipnis_marcial_volvio_al_buen_camino
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In this 2013 interview, he discusses divides between lowland indigenous movements and the Evo Morales government. issuu.com/lapalabradelbeni/docs/lpb_11122013
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Fabricano's hospitalization comes amid the sudden spike in COVID cases in his native Beni department by 108 cases; previously there had only been 83 in total.

