Lima We drove 200 kilometers from Lima to visit the newest local group in ACORN Peru, Chincha, by the Pacific Ocean south of Lima, a straight shot on the Pan American highway. This was a California climate, except drier perhaps with sand dune mountains along the way. Grapes grow here and wine and Pisco makers abound. …
Month: September 2012
Leaving Bolivia
Lima Cochabamba is a very pleasant city in many ways, but La Paz and El Alto are what’s happening as unique political, social, and cultural environments which are hard to duplicate in the rest of the world. The strategic and tactical power of El Alto over the country, because of its geographical stranglehold and emergence and …
Water, Water, Nowhere, and How to Get Enough to Drink in the Andes
Cochabamba We met Marcela Olivera of Food and Water Watch and squeezed into a taxi to go to the south of the city, where living is hardscrabble. There are over a 100 different water “communities” that have formed in the south to collectively finance, supervise, and deliver, as best they can within their own resources and …