Blog From Bolivia

This is (honestly) the very last post that will ever be published in the Blog from Bolivia. The Blog ran from 2004 – 2010. In the 600+ posts published in this archive you will find a wide variety of reporting, …

Dear Friends, Over the past few days we have received many emails from friends outside of Bolivia, long-time supporters of the struggle for social justice here, asking for our opinion and analysis about the turbulent events of the past week. …

Dear Readers: It was almost six years ago, in December 2004, that we began this “Blog from Bolivia.” Today is our last post. The Democracy Center, and I, first began writing about Bolivia a decade ago as the streets of …

1942 It isn’t that I think that all Americans of Japanese descent are bad people.  It is just that we are at war and can’t take any risk, so they and their children just have to be taken from their …

Hey San Francisco and Portland, hey Boston and New York.  Brag if you will of your new bicycle lanes and bike lending programs.  Boast of your Critical Masses choking the streets with two-wheelers and showing the car what’s what.  Look …

Readers: This week marks the anniversary in Bolivia (August 22, 1971) of the coming to power of one of the nation’s most brutal dictatorial regimes – the coup led by General Hugo Banzer.  Abroad the coup is a little known …

Readers,  Week after week a parade of foreigners comes through Cochabamba seeking some sort of wisdom about Bolivian “social movements.”  Academics, journalists and others come drawn to the sense that in some way Bolivians have taken democratic matters into their …

One of the sights that many first time visitors to Bolivia mention when they come here is the legion of child laborers on the country’s streets.  It is a hard fact of life, not in Bolivia, but in almost any …

Readers, As you can tell I am spending these winter weeks in Cochabamba doing a good deal more reading than writing (as it should be sometimes) and I want to draw your attention to an important article written by a …

For those of you interested in the ongoing debate over climate change leading up to the next UN summit in Cancun in December, here is a link to my article published in the current issue of NACLA. Latin America Finds …