The problem with coups, if you are on the side of hating democracy, is that you have to be willing to kill your opponents in order to obtain power. Coups.
I love how liberals will go out of their way to say that Fidel Castro or other Latin American leftists are monsters and then just never even speak about the.
Now that we are figuring out just what has happened in Bolivia, it's predictably a right-wing white coup supported by the military, ready to get revenge against the Native majority..
Evo Morales has resigned in the face of military pressure and protests over his unwillingness to leave office. There are going to be lots of hot takes about this from.
The Guardian has been running an interesting set of stories on world cities. This one highlights Potosí, the Bolivian silver city I have been utterly fascinated by ever since visiting.
This is a good piece on the problems facing the Andean condor, the world's second largest bird. Basically, even though condors, like other vultures, do the ecosystem a tremendous amount.
Victor Paz Thomas Field's new book on the Alliance for Progress in Bolivia demonstrates just how comfortable America's Cold War foreign policy establishment was with dictatorship as its preferred method.
I suppose I should visit Glacier National Park and Glacier Bay National Park before the glaciers become one of our starkest memorials to human-caused climate change. The loss of these.
