| Friday, March 17, 2006 |
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Hola, comrades! Found another great article on the current left-wing trend in Latin America, please give it a read!
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=20&ItemID=9921
In other news, I'm still at Alalay with the kids. I'll try to get some pictures of the kids posted soon (but don't hold your breath) Going shopping tomorrow to curb my souvineer lust...i will likely spend a whole lot of money. Fingers crossed I'll be able to ship it all home in one parcel.
There have been a few protests in La Paz recently...but nothing too serious. They've been from a large group of students from some institution protesting the lack of work or work supplies or something or other...I'm not too sure.
Been reading a book called "Bolivia Between a Rock and a Hard Place" and I'm sure freaking glad I came to Bolivia when I did. Protests and road blockades were commonplace...some of them really violent and resulting in deaths. Actually just this time last year there were huge protests of thousands of people against the (totally freaking corrupt and incompetent) government of Goni Sanchez de Lozada all the time. People are really happy to have an honest man on the side of the people in the presidancy, and it's sure about time that they got one. Hopefully he'll be able to deliver...and all of this stuff about latin american politics and progressive social movements is really inspiring me. God damnit, someday I'll be a polititian.
So one more month in La Paz and I'll likely be off to visit other parts of the country...I'll probably have to stop by Peru for a few days to revitalize my visa here in Bolivia. I'm really excited to see other parts of the country. I really dig La Paz, it's a super cool city, but I also can't wait to see the Amazon, the Southern Antiplano, the Andes...*daydreams profusely* many pages in my diary will be filled, I'm sure. There's a little town south of La Paz that some guy told me about, Santa Rosa I think, that apparantly the journey to is stunning. Maybe I'll check that out!! Also some really nice girls from Austria in my hostel told me about an awesome little town called "Yotala" inbetween Sucre and Pototosi (i think) and I'll certainly go there. I want to make an effort to go to places that most gringos DON'T go to...because the way some people are traveling here to me doesn't really seem like visiting Bolivia at all.
Anyways, buenos noches to you all, ciao!!! |
posted by Ben @ 6:15 PM  |
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So the US doesn't like the whole leftist shift in South America because it's threatening their rightwingedness? Is that right?
And what's with the whole Bitchtel Corporation coming in and taking over one of the basic needs of life? Things that are basic to existance should not be sold. It should be illegal everywhere. Even to sell bottled water. What are they going to do next, charge for the ammount of sunlight a person receives each day? The ammount of air they breathe? People are so fucking ridiculous, it's insane!
Make sure you take millions of photos of the Amazon rainforest, man, I wish I could be there when you go, I love rainforests. Forests of any kind actually.
Your impossible mission is to get me a photo of a jaguar. good luck.
Love Ellie
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Eleanore, thank you for writing such awesome comments on my blog :) Which is something that I think more people should do...
No, the USA certainly does not appreciate the left wing swing in South America. Mostly because left wing governments here actually try to look out for their citizens and develop their countries, rather than sell off their natural resources and labour to the highest bidding multinational corporation (which is what the USA wants)
Yeah, the Bechtel thing was rediculous. It was a pretty amazing show of people power that forced them out of the country, I must say. What's just as bad is that Bolivia gets virtually nothing for it's gas reserves, which are the second biggest in South America. Bolivia had a series of super right wing presidents in the 80's and 90's that sold off their oil for virtually nothing (what'd I tell you...)
I actually saw a jaguar the other day...which was very sad because it was in a zoo. They have lions in the zoo too (in south america!!!) it's really sad. But when I'm rocking the amazon I'll do my best!!!
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I saw an amur jaguar in the london zoo, tigers, lions...zoo's have just about everything. Except the London Zoo didn't have wolves, which was weird but cool for the wolves at the same time.there's this place in the US, oregon, I think, that's like a facility for big cats. People can go and see the animals, but the big thing about it is its atually a school for handlers and keepers and such. I wanted to do that at one time. it's good for endangered species like tigers, because humans have taken over a lot of their natural habitat (and there is still a high price for tiger bones (apparently they have healing powers) and skins, of course). Human's have reduced the wild tiger population 95% since 1930 (i think) There used to be 100,000 wild tigers, last I heard there was only 5,000. There's also a certain type of jaguar of which there are only about 20 left. But i heard that a while ago on tv so now i'm not so sure if that's correct or not.
I just watched a movie on tigers, can you tell?
Love ya ellie
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So the US doesn't like the whole leftist shift in South America because it's threatening their rightwingedness? Is that right?
And what's with the whole Bitchtel Corporation coming in and taking over one of the basic needs of life? Things that are basic to existance should not be sold. It should be illegal everywhere. Even to sell bottled water. What are they going to do next, charge for the ammount of sunlight a person receives each day? The ammount of air they breathe? People are so fucking ridiculous, it's insane!
Make sure you take millions of photos of the Amazon rainforest, man, I wish I could be there when you go, I love rainforests. Forests of any kind actually.
Your impossible mission is to get me a photo of a jaguar. good luck.
Love Ellie
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