La Paz |
I usually hate peoples travelogues, all oh! everythings so cheap/dirty/good/bad/not like home etc. but I have to tell you about going to La Paz...well, first the bus terminal, where you have to haggl...
Posted by Jofe on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 03:59:00 PST |
Update on civil war in Cochabamba... |
well, that night the campesinos had to sleep in the plaza, that they´d occupied & they couldn´t get the corpse out, lest the baying mob get their hands on it.The next day, however, thousands of ca...
Posted by Jofe on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 03:51:00 PST |
3 or 5 dead on the streets... |
There are now 3 or 5 dead & the army are on the streets. Since that last email I sent the street outside was blockaded (including a middle aged woman armed with a hammer threatening any vehicle th...
Posted by Jofe on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 05:27:00 PST |
Santa Cruz de la Sierra |
Sorry I haven´t been able to write as I was in Santa Cruz de la Sierra & as always the journey proves more interesting than the destination...I wasn´t sure if we could as there were blockades plan...
Posted by Jofe on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 12:04:00 PST |
Evo! Evo! |
The president Evo Morales is so surprisingly punk rock... a law was pased that will take back land that dodgy millionaires took in dodgy deals & give it back to the landless peasants - who walked ...
Posted by Jofe on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:12:00 PST |
viva Evo Morales |
Today I was in town & there was a protest as the mayors of the various prefects want to oppose the alarmingly honest president´s plans for fiscalisation, as it´s called here. This is because then ...
Posted by Jofe on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 04:45:00 PST |
llama farmer |
Well, it´s not all that bad, as I went to a llama fair - the lazy way to see Bolivia, as all the different regions showed up with all manner of llama, vicuña & alpaca.....& where there are lla...
Posted by Jofe on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 04:44:00 PST |
