A New On-Line Publication From Bolivia

For those of you who like to follow political events in Bolivia and appreciate a perspective that is left-of-center but well researched and written, some friends of ours in La Paz have started a new on-line newspaper worth reading: Ukhampacha Bolivia. The title is Aymara for, “This is Bolivia.”

The lead writers of the publication are Luis Gómez, who has written for some time for the on-line publication ‘Narco News’, and Jean Friedman-Rudovsky who has also written for Time Magazine. You can find their new publication, published weekly in both English and Spanish here.

Ukhampacha Bolivia was started a month ago and has published articles looking at the racial undertones of Cochabamba’s January violence, the Evo re-election issue, and looks currently at the government’s gas export plans. One thing in particular that you will find from the authors is a critical analysis of the Morales government from a left perspective. While critiques from the right are abundant, published crituques from the left are less so. Both Jean and Luis also have excellent sources throughout Bolivian society and draw on them in their writing. They have also begun posting commentary and analyis from elsewhere in Latin America.

Conservatives who don’t like their views challenged probably won’t like Ukhampacha Bolivia. But everyone else should give it a look.

Oh yes, about the image above. Nothing is inferred other than that I really like dogs. I wish one of mine could bring me the New York Times like this in the morning, but the nearest place it is sold is Miami and that's a long trip even for Little Bear.