El Gaviero

El Dude’s in fine form with all things Bolivian. Plus, Branko’s back in the news!!!

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The Bad:
“Bolivia: Lake Titicaca at dangerously low levels.”
“Warming brings early demise to Bolivian glacier.”
The Good:
“Bolivian transvestites win battle over ID pictures.”

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This blog has been neglected for the past week and a half or so; we occasionally get work here at Gaviero headquarters and have to concentrate on other things! Apologies to all.
We’ll be playing catch-up for while, posting what we can here, and reading up elsewhere. Here are some tidbits:

IKN notes the ludicrousness of the [...]

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Wha!? Bolivian president Evo Morales’s aunt was murdered and dismembered! Bina’s got a translation of a report that Rufina Morales was killed in June by two Bolivians and a Brazilian. The family’s lawyer is connecting it to the Evo-assassination plot earlier this year.
Via PoliBlog, the BBC reports that ousted Honduran president Zelaya says that “Nobody [...]

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Disappointing news out of Washington: The Obama administration is standing by the previous administration’s decision to drop Bolivia from ATPDEA, which gave Bolivia preferential trade treatment in exchange for Bolivia’s drug interdiction. At issue is Bolivian president Morales’s refusal to conflate cocaine–which the country is fighting effectively–with coca.
Super sites IKN and Mex Files are posting [...]

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There’s been a coup in Honduras, with the military spiriting away Honduran president Manuel Zelaya, in pajamas, in the early morning hours on Sunday. At issue is a referendum scheduled for yesterday that would begin a long process to amend the Honduran constitution so that Zelaya could be re-elected. Although the referendum was non-binding, several [...]

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IKN has the depressing news of the arrest of Carlos Rivera in Peru under the Orwellian charge of “false use of a public document.” Rivera was detained at the Lima airport Sunday, after entering Peru to assist in the investigation of human-rights abuses during Peruvian president Alan García’s first term in the 80’s (which, ironically, [...]

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Axis of Evo CONFIRMED! You know that there are 1,000 muslims in Bolivia. Shudder! El Duderino spotlights a report from the Open Source Center (national intelligence propagandists) which points out that, among other nefarious acts, the Iranian government is setting up six new milk processing plants in Bolivia, and donating 650 tractors and 200 agricultural [...]

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Jean Friedman-Rudovsky, in this week’s Time, has a hilarious story about Red Bull’s new cola drink, in which–gasp!–traces of cocaine were found by German authorities. Never mind that the amount of the cocaine alkaloid (0.13 micrograms per can; 10 million cans could conceivably get you high) is too small to affect anything. It’s a drug! [...]

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El Gaviero has just flown back to New York City, and boy is he tired. Unfortunately for him, the Bolivian news cycle never stops, and he now finds himself playing catch-up! Luckily for you all, other bloggers never rest. So here’s a round-up on the news from Bolivia:

Otto’s got a great translation of a damning [...]

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