El Gaviero

We’re back! It’s been a busy month, and there’s a lot of catch-up to do.
Let’s start with an excellent report from the Bolivia Information Forum, which has a new bulletin out about the re-inauguration of Bolivian President Evo Morales. The BIF not only has a good rundown of the official ceremony–held in the ruins of [...]

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Yesterday a powerful earthquake hit Haiti, devastating its capital, Port-au-Prince. Reports–the ones that are getting out, anyway, as most communications are cut off–are pretty bleak. Haiti’s had a spat of natural disasters lately, which has already tested its resilience, and this powerful earthquake is just brutal.
Via the Brooklynite on Ice, who suggests that concerned people [...]

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The AP (via NYT) presents a story today about the Guarani in the Bolivian lowlands, who are finally getting lifted out of serfdom by Evo Morales’s policy of appropriating fallow or unproductive land–or land from fugitive landowners and rich American expats–and redistributing it to poor indigenous groups. Great read, great reporting. Kudos to the AP [...]

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Ousted Cochabamba prefect and failed Bolivian presidential candidate Manfred Reyes Villa is apparently stateside, as a fugitive from Bolivian justice, which is looking into how the onetime army officer and bodyguard is now a very, very rich man (hint: by steering government funds into his pockets).
Also: Real Coca Cola (or Colla) will be available in [...]

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