Searching for the devil inside

La tentation de Potosi / Credit : Philippe Crnogorac, Zorba Productions

Yesterday I went to the premiere of “La tentation de Potosi” (The temptation of Potosi, only in one cinema in Paris for the moment). Interesting idea from the French documentary maker Philippe Crnogorac who had already made a film about Bolivia ten years ago. He heard about popular stories where Bolivian miners pact with the devil to get rich. Especially one called Manuel Morales, who disappeared after breaking the pact.

A foregone conclusion in Bolivia

After Uruguay and Honduras last week and before Chile next week, Bolivia elected its president on Sunday. But unlike the others there was no suspense in Bolivia. There will be no second round as Evo Morales got more than 60% of the votes, the first estimations say. The opposition was divided between two conservatives, Manfred Reyes Villa (more than 20%) and Samuel Doria Medina (less than 10%).

Meeting up with Vania, Bolivia

Launching a new project on this blog. The idea is to give speech to one blogger of each country of Latin America. I will publish the interviews regularly asking them to talk about their country. I think it can be good testimonies…
And I’m glad to begin the series with the interview of Vania Balderrama. Vania writes a very interesting blog about everyday life in Bolivia. Always with sensitivity and a very good sense of analysis. Let’s go to La Paz…

What happened in Santa Cruz, Bolivia ?

Eduardo Rosza-Flores, a controversial victim / eduflores.fw.hu

It looks like an old story, coming from a Cold War movie and adding some elements of our contemporary world. In last April in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, police declared they killed three people in a hotel, after they were attacked. They said it was an anti-terrorist operation and the three men were part of a plot to assassinate President Evo Morales. Immediately, the identity of the victims arouses curiosity : one of them, Michael Dwyer, is Irish, another one, Arpad Magyarosi, is a Romanian-Hungarian citizen

“Sucre”: the financial future for Latin America ?

It is a recurrent issue, an old dream that is coming back in the news in an unexpected form. The Bolivarian revolution Hugo Chavez has made his banner for several years could take an important step in the coming months … creating a single currency. The economic crisis, a weak dollar, the political context that brought left wing majorities to power… All this has given a big boost to the “sucre” project.