Hopefully it won’t get worse before it gets better. I’ll give my dad and aunt another call this weekend to get their perspective on the situation. Sanchez de Lozada, a 73-year-old U.S.-educated businessman and one of the wealthiest people in the country, is disliked by millions of Bolivians who see him as a "gringo" out […]
Marches and protests continue in La Paz and look to be spreading to other cities in Bolivia. Elsewhere in the capital, long lines formed outside grocery stores over worries of food shortages as demonstrators continued to block roads, choking off the city from the rest of the country. We talked to my Dad and Aunt
Looks like my dad picked a bad time to visit the motherland: Thousands took to the streets in the capital, chanting anti-government slogans and demanding the president resign despite his announcement Monday that he will shelve controversial plans for natural gas exports. The plans to sell gas to the United States and Mexico had already
One year ago, I was tooling around Paris. In 1967, Latin American guerrilla leader Che Guevara was executed while attempting to incite revolution in Bolivia. More events
Interesting article forwarded to me by my cousin from the WSJ on Coca Eradication failing in Bolivia. Unfortunately you need a subscription to view it online but you can get a lot of info from Google News too. And from Erythroxylum: The Coca Plant The Andean culture and the coca plant have thrived for centuries.