Abstract
Bolivia is one of those cases in which indigenous rights law – in terms of both ratification or transposition of international standards and a proper domestic protection – could have played “the” major role in solving a land-related issue. However, the implementation of its notable catalogue of indigenous rights remains unfulfilled. A glaring example of this “implementation gap”, is the current construction of the highway that crosses in the middle the indigenous territory and natural park Territorio Indígena y Parque Nacional Isiboro-Secure (TIPNIS).