· October, 2006

Stories about Bolivia from October, 2006

Bolivia: National Book Reviews

  31 October 2006

Blogs de Bolivia describes [ES] how all this week the blog of Editorial Nuevo Milenio [ES] will focus on prize-winning books by Bolivian novelists.

The Week that Was – Bolivian Blogs

  25 October 2006

What to do with the precious reserves of natural gas has been on the minds of Bolivians ever since their discovery. Recently, the governments of Bolivia and Argentina arrived at an agreement for Bolivia to sell gas to their neighbor to the south for the next twenty years at a...

Bolivia: Border Military Bases and Internal Conflicts

  23 October 2006

The treaty between Bolivia and Venezuela to build military facilities on the borders with Paraguay, Chile, Perú, and Brasil is being discussed in political blogs from Perú and Chile. Chilean conservative bloggers writing at El Rincón de Michelle [ES] agree that the treaty should be regarded as evidence of Venezuelan...

The Week that Was – Bolivian Blogs

  20 October 2006

Cartoon used by permission from artist Worries concerning a possible civil war in Bolivia have simmered for now. However, cartoon blogger (for a lack of a better term) Joaquin Cuevas was celebrated for his recent parody of the campaign for the Constituent Assembly, which originally said “Todos Juntos Hacia la...

Bolivia: Prosecuting Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada

  18 October 2006

Nick Buxton has been busy lately organizing the International Day of Action in Solidarity with Bolivia, which aimed to “call on the US to notify and extradite former President of Bolivia, Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada (known as Goni) and two of his Ministers from the US.” In a related note,...

Bolivia: Visas in Hindsight

14 October 2006

El Alto blogger Mario Ronald Duran Chuquimia laments the need of Bolivians to migrate to Spain [ES]. Even though internet technologies bring families closer together across the distance, it is not quite the same. He writes, tongue-in-cheek, that it was Bolivia's mistake not to require visas from the Spanish during...

The Week that Was – Bolivian Blogs

11 October 2006

An isolated mining town called Huanuni, located in the Department of Oruro, was the center of attention in Bolivia after violent clashes between groups of miners. In question were the rights to exploit the mine, as both the state-employed miners (asalariados) and independent contractors (cooperativistas) both laid claim to the...

Bolivia: Recommended Links and Movies

  10 October 2006

Eduardo Ávila recommends three Bolivia-centered links. Jim Shultz reviews the film Quien Mato a la Llamita Blanca? (Who Killed the Little White Llama?) by Rodrigo Bellott and links to its trailer.

The Week that Was – Bolivian Blogs

  4 October 2006

The Bolivian blog community continues to grow by leaps and bounds. In addition to its own website, Blogs de Bolivia, where new blogs are added to the blogroll on an ongoing basis, there is a Yahoo! groups specifically for this community to communicate amongst themselves. Another blog project was created...

Bolivia: A bad day for Evo and for Bolivia

  3 October 2006

Miguel Centellas describes what was “a bad day for Evo.” Miguel Buitrago quotes a report from the International Crisis Group on the deteriorating political environment in Bolivia.