Quito Last night sitting in Casa Damian, an amazingly good Spanish restaurant in Quito, with two companeros, one of whom was a former chief adviser to the President Rafael Correa now working for the government on how to revise the procedures and update the judicial system and the other a former communications and policy adviser …
Category: International
Alternative Universes Collide between North and South on Hugo Chavez Re-election
Quito Landing in Ecuador after 11 pm and clearing customs, Hugo Chavez’s press conference was on all of the television sets as we exited the airport. The first question I was asked as I headed for the hotel was whether or not I had heard that Chavez was re-elected. This was big news in Ecuador, …
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 …