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 [...]
So Evo Morales is in the United States this week, and some of my friends at American University will be attending his lecture at the school in Northwest DC. Due to the wonders of Facebook, there are some Bolivian residents are organizing a protest at the OAS.
Here is the group invitation:
And here are some [...]
Recently I was invited to attend the feast of San Martín located in the small community of Bombo, located about 2 hours from the city of Oruro. Here is the first video taken on that day…
Entrada de la Fiesta de San Martín en Ayllu Bombo from eduardo ávila on Vimeo.
As you may know, our project Voces Bolivianas is part of the Rising Voices network and its blog was recently nominated for the Best of Blog awards. The content and activities of Voces Bolivianas is frequently featured in said blog. Here is a republished article from Global Voices Online written by Solana Larsen.
Global [...]
In our Voces Bolivianas workshops, we’ve been teaching how to open blogs using the Blogger platform. I had originally wanted to use Wordpress, since I have found it to be easier to use and much less confusing with all of the Adsense, Adwords, that many people ask about (everyone wants to know how to make [...]
In an effort to free up some space on my hard drive, I was looking through for files to delete or transfer. I came across this short Word document from late 2006 with some brief notes about a possible outreach project in Bolivia. This was the early days of Voces Bolivianas, before it started to [...]
I spent ten days in Kampala, Uganda in September. In the evening, after completing my Global Voices duties, I would meet up with friends of friends of friends, and one evening took me to the outskirts of town to meet with Abramz. He is in charge of the Uganda Breakdance project. Here is a [...]
Originally published at Global Voices….
Tens of thousands of peasants, miners, coca-growers, and other supporters of the government of Evo Morales arrived in La Paz on Monday. What had originally started as a march to apply pressure to the Bolivian Congress to pass a law calling for a Referendum to approve the draft Constitution ended as [...]
About three weeks after the event, (I finally found a high enough speed internet connection to listen), but expelled US ambassador Phillip Goldberg spoke at an event sponsored by the Inter-American Dialogue. You can listen to the audio here. Thanks to my friend Boz for making this available.
I’ve spent the past five days in Grahamstown, South Africa attending the 12th annual Highway Africa conference, which deals with citizen journalism and the use of ICTs. I also had the opportunity to present on the Voces Bolivianas project and I have found that we much in common with many developing African countries. It was [...]
As the start-up funding from Rising Voices comes to an end, the project that I am part of, Voces Bolivianas must find new and creative ways to find funding to continue our projects. The list of participants and communities that want to be a part of this web 2.0 world continues to grow. The number [...]
Checking out the Voces Bolivianas website on my friend Luis Carlos’ ASUS EEE Laptop in Budapest.
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Carlos Mesa interview with the Santa Cruz newspaper El Deber.
Bloguivianos 2008 – National blogger’s conference to be held in La Paz and El Alto.
Marcelo Martins Moreno hopes to give the Bolivian National Team 3 points today vs. Chile..”I hope to be englightened in order to score goals.”
Apparently the 419 scams are going multi-lingual….
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Cómo estás junto con tu familia? Es bueno escribir hoy sin embargo, no es ni obligatorio ni de ninguna manera me obligan a ir en contra de su voluntad. Mi nombre es Sliverline Marvin.I mañana 20 años, la única hija y el hijo del jefe (Late) Mr Emmanuel [...]
The Pulitzer Center is asking, “What role should the US play in reducing the production of illicit drugs – such as cocaine and heroin – in places like Bolivia and Afghanistan?” So far it appears that few, if any, Bolivians are responding…
Originally posted at Global Voices
Santa Cruz, Bolivia will head to the polls today in a department-wide referendum on a controversial autonomic statute, which would grant more administrative and economic powers to the state government. Not every Cruceño (resident of the department) will participate, however, as many share the opinion of the central government that [...]