In Bolivia we use cartoon humor to portray our failures and frustrations, let’s see some: This is from El Diario, March 17, 2012. It shows the increasing levels of crime and certainly those wonderful tourists who choose our country, are almost defenseless. The police section who is responsible for tourism protection has very little resources,…
Month: April 2012
TIPNIS protest-walk update, as of April 18, 2012
As reported in El Deber’s website: The indigenous leader lamented that a week away from the mobilization, the President Evo Morales along with the Acting Governor of Beni Haisen Rivera, continue giving “gifts” to the villagers that inhabit the Isiboro Sécure National Park; looking after “splitting” the indigenous people and promote the failure of the…
For the last 41 years, a conflict per day
This cartoon appeared in Los Tiempos, April 11, 2012. The first person, portraying someone from current government, saying “blockade…strike…blockade…blockade…” a man says “the government is committed to prevent that marches and blockades continue!” ‘avernoy’ replies “and you think they will succeed, bro?” the dog thinks “doctor Frankenstein trying to stop their creation work” SO let’s…
Bolivian unfortunate public transport reality
In general we can say we have a very poor public transport system, the buses, mini-buses and taxis of all kinds in general are old, used, and are considered junk in the countries of origin, on top of that, most of them come smuggled and sometimes the ‘conversion’ from the wheel to the left causes…
In Potosi: Cayara Hotel, 400 years of history
Alejandra Pau writes for Pagina Siete: Its five courtyards, dozens of corridors and hallways, its Chapel and rooms have passed families of the nobility and prominent figures in the history of the Alto Peru [colonial name of current Bolivia, the high Peru] and Bolivia during no less than four centuries. Hacienda Cayara is almost hidden…
Threatened Bolivian macroeconomic stability
Today I will share Alberto Bonadona’s interesting and worrying article published in El Deber: Bolivia stood in a past that still many remember as an economy of great instability. It reached the second rate of higher inflation in Latin America with more than 11,000% of growth of their prices in 1984. But not only inflation became…
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