News from Bolivia, and elsewhere.
Posted in Uncategorized, war on drugs on Jul 2nd, 2011
From Bolivian Express.
On May 19, 2008, three young Norwegian women, Stina Brendemo Hagan, then 17 years old; Madeleine Rodriguez, then 20; and Christina Øygarden, then 18—along with Madeleine’s then 2-year-old daughter, Alicia—arrived at the Cochabamba airport to fly back to Norway after a three-week holiday in Bolivia. None of them made
their flight. Airport police [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 14th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 30th, 2009
It figures that the week between Christmas and New Year’s–when most people in publishing have mandatory vacations–El Gaviero’s actually got work projects to complete. So, there’s a dearth of posting here. My apologies, but the New Year will hopefully find this blog hopping again. In the meantime, check out my friend Richard’s reporting from Haiti, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, washington on Dec 7th, 2009
People that have never been to Bolivia, let alone observed an election there, are perpetuating the myth that Morales’s MAS party will accompany voters to the polls to ensure that they vote appropriately in today’s election. As far as I am aware, this lie started out with Mary Anastasio O’Grady’s WSJ column last month, when [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 6th, 2009
Weisbrot at the Center for Economic and Policy Research has a paper on Bolivia’s economic development under President Morales (who will likely–nay, almost certainly–win re-election tomorrow). I’ll be digging into it this rainy Saturday afternoon. Join me? (Via El Dude.)
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 6th, 2009
IKN has Armen Kouyoumdjian’s excellent screed about LatAm critics living in glass houses. It’s a great and hilarious read.
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 16th, 2009
Michael Ratner, of the Center for Constitutional Rights, explains how the Alien Tort Claims Act and the Torture Victim Protection Act can help bring justice to victims outside of the United States:
From “Civil Remedies for Gross Human Rights Violations.”
Over the last few years, many in the human rights community have focused on criminal remedies for [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 15th, 2009
Via Abiding in Bolivia, Bolivia Rising reports that the “U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Florida ruled yesterday that the claims for crimes against humanity and extrajudicial killings could move forward in two related U.S. cases against former Bolivian President Gonzalo Daniel Sánchez de Lozada Sánchez Bustamante (Sánchez de Lozada) and former Bolivian [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 13th, 2009
Via AP:
… the interim government in a statement asked members of a commission tasked with monitoring implementation of a U.S.-brokered deal to not take sides or make statements that can complicate the dispute, “much less celebrate that one of the sides has unilaterally broken the accord.”
The interim leaders appeared to be responding to comments [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 20th, 2009
Greg Grandin, NYU historian and foe of Lanny Davis, writes in the latest London Review of Books about the diverse leftist resurgence in Latin America, in response to political scientists–such as former Mexican foreign minister Jorge Castañeda–who, through habit or ideology, typically divide it into one of two categories: “social democrats whom Washington can work [...]
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