Remember the awesome multilingual rappers from Wayna Tambo radio, Ukamau y Ke? Yes you do. They were the ones putting an Aymara spin on hip hop (pun fully intended). I was saddened to find out today that Abraham Bohorquez, one of their key rappers, died recently after being run over on the road – although [...]
Archive for May, 2009
More sad news
Posted in death notices on May 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Freedom of the press, or freedom to press charges?
Posted in bolivian press, dodgy dealings, oriente on May 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
First of all, you should know that those mercenary guys probably were working for the opposition leaders in Santa Cruz. We know this now because a huge interview just appeared with a man who was in their sordid wee gang and has just turned grass. Otto at Inca Kola News has turfed up the story [...]
Good Journalism, Bad Journalism
Posted in land reform, oriente, UK press, Uncategorized on May 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Let’s start with the bad stuff first, shall we? A video report telling us that large landholders don’t like the new agrarian reform much. You know what? British MPs don’t like the new focus on their expenses much, either, because it shows some of them to be grasping, out-of-touch toerags who think they’re above the [...]
Margaret Thatcher Centre for Child Nutrition
Posted in Uncategorized on May 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We’re approaching the 147th anniversary of the death of Juana Azurduy de Padilla, who is my second-favourite female military commander in Bolivian/Alto-Peruvian history. (The first is, of course, the Aymara leader Bartolina Sisa, who was busy leading an armed insurrection along with her partner Tupaj Katari in the year of Juana’s birth. They were both [...]
Jimmy Carter, cocalero
Posted in coca, USA on May 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
According to Los Tiempos, former US president Jimmy Carter has declared himself to be proud of his friendship with Evo Morales and is looking forward to coming back to Bolivia in December for the elections…and the coca harvest. Carter invited Evo to come and harvest peanuts on his farm in Georgia, see, so Evo has [...]
About that assassination plot, then…
Posted in dodgy dealings, oriente, violence on May 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I haven’t posted about the whole Santa Cruz hotel room/dodgy international mercenary gang/police shootout debacle until now, but I’m pleased to see that the big boy bloggers have been taking on the essential job of disseminating information about the attackers and the circumstances. More of that in a minute. Today, my boss Alex at the [...]
Roving Blogger
Posted in bolivia web 2.0 on May 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Sorry it’s been so silent here. I’ve been working on my own vertical archipelago system of internet presence, in classic Andean stylee, which is to say that I’ve been establishing footholds in other niches so as to encourage close and fertile collaboration with this one. As part of this, I was asked to write an [...]
