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During my first trip to the Middle East last month, I met some Egyptian bloggers who are [...]
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Rivalries in Argentine football can become quite heated. The battles on the field often spill over into the stands, as club supporters clash with one another in various sections of the stadium. With nearly half of the 20 teams in the Argentine first division league located in the greater [...]
A video of my cousin’s puppy.
it’s max from eduardo ávila on Vimeo.
Bolivia was recently listed as one of the top 11 most dangerous destinations for foreign tourists, joining Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia. According to this Los Tiempos story, Bolivia is considered to be unsafe because of the continued conflict between the government and the opposition groups. This certainly is overreacting, since tourists are not targeted or [...]
Carnaval is about five weeks away, but all throughout the city of Cochabamba, teens and university students are gearing up with the annual water balloon tradition. It also takes place in other cities in Bolivia. Groups of young people buy water balloons from enterprising vendors and use them for target practice. Young men only usually [...]
December 28 marks Bolivia and much of Latin America’s version of April Fools Day (Día de los Inocentes). Newspapers from around the country try to show how cute that they can be by planting fake stories on their print and online versions. An example of a good joke was the sports story in Los Tiempos [...]
Looks like the Bolivian government is getting into the “truth” business by creating the first state-run newspaper. According to ABI (the state’s information department), Evo Morales said:
”Por primera el Estado tendrá su propio periódico y que difundirá cada día la verdad mediante los medios de comunicación”, señaló el Jefe de Estado..
“For the first time, the [...]
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Snapped this picture (through a dirty windshield) of new offices of the new Bolivian state airline Boliviana de Aviación (BOA), which is set to take-off soon. Their central headquarters will be in Cochabamba, and will seemingly put LAB to rest permanently.
From Wikipedia:
The government says that it aims to “democratize air transport in Bolivia” through the [...]
It’s almost official. Former president Carlos Mesa will likely be one of Evo Morales’ chief rivals in the presidential elections tentatively scheduled for December 2009. Responding to questions by reporters in Lima, he said that if there will be elections (if and when the new Constitution passes), he will be a candidate.
My early take [...]
By now, we all know about the expulsion of the Drug Enforcement Agency out of Bolivia. However, when Evo Morales and his drug czar and former coca leader Felipe Caceres went to check out their installations, they were “surprised” that the DEA took their sophisticated equipment with them. The nerve of the US for taking their property with [...]
The sounds of low flying planes, helicopters, and speeding ambulances filled the air of Cochabamba this morning. The volunteers of SAR – FAB (Rescue Service of Bolivia) sponsored a rescue simulation in response to an earthquake that hypotheticallly shook the city this morning.
Earlier that morning, drivers of a couple of public transport lines blockaded the [...]
Specuation only and it is really early….
Evo Morales
Samuel Doria Medina
Carlos Mesa
Felipe Quispe
René Joaquino
Ruben Costas
Manfred Reyes Villa
Mario Cossio
Eduardo Rodriguez Veltze
Victor Hugo Cardenas
I think the VP candidates would be more interesting. Many say Evo received the middle-class city vote because of his choice for VP, who ironically turned out to be more radical than Evo himself. [...]
Update 01/17/09: correction, please see Jenny’s comment below.
h/t to Jwuo. Apparently Bolivian president Evo Morales and other South American leaders are making an appearance on the Simpsons. Can you guess who is who? (Answer after the jump)
Not all of Bolivia subscribed to the rest of the world’s desire for Barack Obama to be elected as president. The secondary school students at the Santa Cruz Cooperative School preferred McCain-Palin.
As Aka Lusi wrote:
I figure most kids vote their parent’s politics, and most of our parents belong to the anti-Evo Morales crew. Evo’s [...]
MAS busca un reemplazante para Vicepresidente – Alvaro Garcia Linera states that he will not run for reelection during the 2009 presidential elections and that is seeking to be president in 2014.
I spent a considerable amount of time in the suburb city of Quillacollo back in 2005. It has grown quite a bit and is suffering from the same problems as its neighboring city of Cochabamba — crime. A group of neighbors decided enough was enough and hoped that by spraypainted an ominous warning [...]
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A string of lynchings and attempted lynchings around Bolivia has caused a bit of concern around the country. The latest and most high-profile case [es] took place in the Altiplano town of Achacachi. Reports say that 11 men and women, who were allegedly accused of robbery were captured [...]
The Bolivian Football Federation reminded all club teams that campaigning through the use of shirts with political, religious or personal messages are prohibited. This was in response to the tshirts worn by the Santa Cruz teams Oriente Petrolero and Blooming. The players came onto the field wearing white t-shirts with “NO” on the front. Obviously [...]
The Washington Post has a story on Morales’ Tuesday and Wednesday visit to Washington, DC, where he spoke at American University, was jeered at the OAS, and visited the Lincoln memorial.
For his part, Morales seemed to place great hopes in Obama’s election, saying on several occasions that the two men had much in common as [...]