Speculation arose last month that the international tribunal, (Icsid) from the World Bank was ready to hand down a ruling concerning Aguas del Tunari. Speculation also followed that the ruling wouldn’t be very favorable for Bolivia. As you may remember, the “Guerra del Agua” in Cochabamba forced the Banzer adminstration to scrap privatization [...]
A bomb rocks the Ministry of Defense in La Paz. Fortunately, the explosion took place at night and no one was injured. This was the latest explosion by dynamite in the last ten days. Other targets included a military installation and the television channel P.A.T., which current President Carlos Mesa was one [...]
…well, at least according to Dateline D.C. from this conservative Pittsburgh Live columnist.
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, El Salvador, Uruguay and Venezuela all have socialist regimes.
and apparently Bolivian politics is overrun by Commies.
In each of these countries, old-time communist parties are flourishing. During the era of Bill Clinton, nothing was done to counterattack [...]
Grocery shopping has never been high on my list of favorite activities. Every week or so I take the four-minute drive over to Shopper’s Food, mainly because it does not require one of those member cards, which makes me uncomfortable how the store can track your purchases.
What I like most about my shopping trip [...]
The intersection of Avenida Heroinas and 25 de Mayo.
The St. Petersburg Times had a chance to chat with Goni, in one of his rare interviews.
His overthrow still hurts. But a year later, “Goni,” as he is universally known, is philosophical about it. “When something as traumatic happens to you as happened to me, there’s one lesson you have to learn,” he said, over [...]
I’ll be having Thanksgiving dinner at my cousins’ house. After dinner, instead of watching football, we’ll be watching fútbol. Bolivar plays Liga Deportiva Universitario – Quito for the semifinals of the Copa Sudadmericana. Again, thanks to satellite TV, we’ll be watching the game live on Fox Sports en Español.
I ran across a great website: enlared.org, which provides great information regarding municipalities, legislation and other public information. Over the weekend, I am going to spend some time investigating. An example of some information I found:
Monthly (Official) Salaries for the Mayor (2003):
Santa Cruz: Bs. 20875 ($2,609 USD)
La Paz: Bs. 19500 ($2,437 USD)
Cochabamba: [...]
National Team Captain, Luis Hector Cristaldo, tests positive for cocaine. He claims that the test results are false and is an attempt to discredit him, so that he is removed from the team once and for all.
National Team goalkeepr, Leo Fernandez, does not return to Bolivia after last week’s game against Colombia. Instead [...]
You don’t have to be an NBA basketball fan to have seen the fight between the Detroit Pistons, Indiana Pacers, and Pistons fans. When two players decided to jump into the stands to respond to flying debris (a cup of ice), it reminded me of my experiences at futbol matches in Cochabamba and grateful [...]
A friend of mine is down at Fort Benning, Georgia this weekend protesting the School of the Americas (SOA), or the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation as it is called now. Now public protests aren’t generally my cup of tea, but this is definitely a cause that I can get behind. As [...]
Even though it looks like a doctored photo, I found this strange actual picture in Yahoo.
This photo shows President Carlos Mesa volunteering as a prop in a bicycle demonstration. This took place during the hot air balloon festival in Uyuni. The bicycle demonstration was a part of the entertainment that included [...]
Everyone knows he is in Washington DC doing “work” from his office in Chevy Chase, MD. The ex-President even admitted that he would be safer in a prison in Bolivia, than in Washington DC due to his fears that a terrorist-planted nuclear bomb would target the nation’s capital.
The ambassador to Bolivia recently confirmed that [...]
There was a definite aroma of the coca leaf in the air, which is a good thing in my view. I love the distinct smell of that controversial crop. People were bussed in from all across the Department, especially the Chapare Region, where MAS will most likely sweep the upcoming municipal elections.
With cookie-cutter [...]
From Rocko’s Blog
En efecto, se ha anunciado que a partir de 2005 estará disponible la versión Windows XP en quechua, que no sólo será de distribución gratuita, sino que la traducción del programa informático a la lengua de los incas está siendo realizada por académicos de Perú, país donde existe la mayor cantidad de quechuahablantes [...]
Bolivia is one of 16 countries that have qualified to receive aid from the Millenium Challenge Corporation for the coming year. Because of its place as one of the world’s poorest countries and because it shows sign of stability (in comparison with places in complete chaos), Bolivia can stand to receive grant money from [...]
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