tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30598467.post1949001987695810049..comments2023-08-16T12:07:22.995+00:00Comments on The Daily (Maybe): Bolivia: expulsions and explosionsJim Jeppshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17410387006098326671noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30598467.post-88253390470587221202008-09-12T22:27:00.000+00:002008-09-12T22:27:00.000+00:00Fancy hearing a gossipy anecdote that may or may n...Fancy hearing a gossipy anecdote that may or may not be true? Go on... you know you're tempted...! I have no way of verifying it other than that a friend told me this morning that it was what today's explosions in La Paz are about*! <BR/><BR/>So the latest rumour on the streets of La Paz is that the Ambassador may have been expelled, but he hasn't been able to leave the country because of the fascist fuckwits destroying the airport in Santa Cruz on monday. All international flights out of Bolivia go from El Alto to Santa Cruz before they fly off to Miami, and so he's stuck here until they fix the airport in Santa Cruz. Which is why people were protesting this morning outside his embassy. <BR/><BR/>Anyway. That's the rumour. It may have only partial truth, but I thought it was ironically amusing anyway. Though, actually, less amusing when I consider that I may not be able to fly home either on Tuesday, and Bolivia is on the brink of civil war. Oh well. <BR/><BR/><BR/>*Yeah its a game we all play here on a daily basis - guess whether the loud booms all over the city at any time of day or night are happy booms or angry booms! And then for bonus points we try and work out what they are celebrating/protesting about. It adds a whole layer of extra fun to city life when people both celebrate and protest with sticks of dynamite!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30598467.post-60787906575137110932008-09-11T15:46:00.000+00:002008-09-11T15:46:00.000+00:00Hopefully the US will be too distracted by interna...Hopefully the US will be too distracted by internal politics, Iraq and Afganistan to seriously aid the power elites of Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela.<BR/>Its tough enough for the left without renewed yankee imperialism!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30598467.post-7400207036261196842008-09-11T14:19:00.000+00:002008-09-11T14:19:00.000+00:00Another example demonstrating that the US only bel...Another example demonstrating that the US only believes in democracy when it serves it's own interest.Joseph Dubonnethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13701700382244682200noreply@blogger.com