I finally got a chance to watch Rachel Boynton’s excellent documentary “Our Brand is Crisis“, a film I have been meaning to see since it came out sometime in 2006. …
I am back in the United States, having left Bolivia almost a week and half ago. There are many things in the Bolivian sphere I could comment on, but I…
Last Friday Bolivian President Evo Morales, accompanied by Marcelo Claure CEO of Brightstar Corporation, announced that Bolivia would provide a laptop for every child in the country. With Bolivia’s entrance…
It has been too long since I have posted in this blog. Not that I haven’t thought about the issues that are confronting us…but it does get too overwhelming at…
After going to my local polling station yesterday afternoon, I couldn’t help but make some striking comparisons between US mid-term elections and Bolivia’s constituent assembly election, which was held on…
After four months in Bolivia, today is officially my last day and the next couple of days I will spend traveling back to my home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It…
The Vice Minister is a busy man. He runs from place to place, with his cell-phone in one hand and a bag of coca in another, busily chewing the leaves…
If the saying is true that all politics are local, then to get a real understanding of Evo Morales and his MAS party, one must look at the local characters…
Though it took more weeks than I had anticipated, I have given a general portrayal of the history of silver mining in the Bolivian town of Potosi. The Cerro Rico…
The Spanish mine owners weren’t necessarily overtly abusive to the indigenous workers. They didn’t have to be; the conditions in the mines were enough to kill the hardiest workers. Colonial…
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