I was just having a go at translating bits of the new Bolivian constitution into English, as you do, when I was struck by the lengthy and impressive inclusion of all of Bolivia’s indigenous languages, totalling 37 – which, I gather from Ned Thomas of the Mercator Institute (interesting blog here), is about the same [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Linguistic plurality – they really mean it!
Posted in it's a good day to be indigenous, language, new CPE on August 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Pichikatero journalism
Posted in coca, UK press, tagged narco on August 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
PJ O’Rourke joked in his book ‘Holidays in Hell’ that a certain hotel in Albania was highly rated by journalists for the fact that the cocaine on sale in its nightclub was no better or worse than in London or New York, and that the reception staff were amenable to disguising bar tabs as laundry [...]
Pobre neglected blogcito
Posted in Uncategorized on August 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
So much to write about, and so little written! Compadrit@s, van a disculpar that I have left the t’anta wawa’s oven without a flame for so long. There was a housemove, and a concerted thesis-push involved. But there’s been plenty going on in Bolivia and even here in the UK where this last weekend, I [...]
