This is the final post in a series from Eric Rindal on the life of a homosexual in La Paz and Bolivia on a whole. For the rest of the series, click for the first,second, or third posts. How common are Carlos and Diego’s stories for a homosexual man in Bolivia? In the book Sociolegal Control of Ho[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Bolivia’
July 25th, 2011 - 7:55 am § in Bolivia, In the Field
Uyuni Around the Edges
Where everything you see looks like snow.... but really you've got kilometers of salt fields surrounded by nothing but ghost towns, volcanic rock, and of course, llama. It blew my mind for two full days -- which is to say that its beauty was only as grand as the Puget Sound Islands -- in the rare mo[...]
June 21st, 2011 - 6:01 am § in Around Town, Bolivia
Getting to Chile; remarkably less Chilly
Our truck driver, who had not said more than 50 words to us in the last three days, finally got the Jeep started. We clamored in, our hair still wet and starting to freeze, but our bodies thankful for having gotten into the hot spring after three days of cold. We drove to the edge of [...][...]
Blog Action Day, 2010: Water – How to Reach Eight Glasses a Day
This post is in honor of Blog Action Day today. Latin America contains 26% of the world’s water resources and hosts 6% of the world’s population. This means a lot; this means little. Unequal water distribution is not just spatial. It is temporal, through cycles of drought and flood. It [...]
