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	<title>Agroblogger &#187; Bolivia</title>
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		<title>Democracy and Imperialism in Latin America</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2008/12/29/democracy-and-imperialism-in-latin-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evo-Morales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[goni]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
I finally got a chance to watch Rachel Boynton's excellent documentary &#34;Our Brand is Crisis&#34;, a film I have been meaning to see since it came out sometime in 2006.&#160; This one really set my wheels turning.&#160; &#160;I don't have too much to say about the first 2/3rds of the film, as this is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Identifying Shrimp</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/10/29/identifying-shrimp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:36:53 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aquaculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chapare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shrimp]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

&#160;This is a species of freshwater shrimp (Macrobrachium sp.) from the tropical Chapare region of Cochabamba, Bolivia.&#160; This specimen was given to me over a year a go by young researcher and innovator.&#160;  He believes that this species of prawn has economic potential, as they grow fast and endure a variety of conditions.&#160;  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living on the Edge</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/08/02/living-on-the-edge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 01:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inflation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lou-Dobbs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NAFTA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
    The Third World farmer lives constantly on the precipice of disaster.  They are not blessed with many of the things we take for granted: la steady job, stable income, an economy fairly free from inflation, and a social services network that helps to mitigate the effects of natural disaster.

  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comparing Bolivian and American Elections</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/11/08/comparing-bolivian-and-american-elections/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/11/08/comparing-bolivian-and-american-elections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2006 16:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election-2006]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evo-Morales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United-States]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
    After going to my local polling station yesterday afternoon, I couldn't help but make some striking comparisons between US mid-term elections and Bolivia's constituent assembly election, which was held on July 2, 2006. In both cases, the airwaves, both television and radio, were inundated with propaganda and negative campaign ads.

  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wrapping Up</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/07/21/wrapping-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 14:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evo-Morales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[international-development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[migration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
    After four months in Bolivia, today is officially my last day and the next couple of days I will spend traveling back to my home in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  It has certainly been an interesting time to be here.  I have witnessed the nationalization of gas, elections to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cluck</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/07/20/the-cluck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2006 11:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coca]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cocaine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crystal-meth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug-abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ritalin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tragedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war-on-drugs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.agroblogger.com/?p=130</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
    The cluck was born into a conservative family in the suburban sprawl of the western United States.  Since anybody can remember, he was always one of the smartest and funniest kids in school.  He was hyperactive, yes, but that didn't seem to bother anyone, except for maybe his teachers. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cocalero</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/07/18/the-cocalero/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/07/18/the-cocalero/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chapare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coca]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cocaine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cocalero]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[international-development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[narcotics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USAID]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.agroblogger.com/?p=129</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
    The Cocalero was born into a Quechua speaking family in the arid, rural valleys of Cochabamba, Bolivia.  At the age of 15, his father left his mother, with 10 children, for another woman.  Out of sheer necessity, his mother forced him to drop out of school to work full [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Vice Minister</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/07/07/the-vice-minister/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/07/07/the-vice-minister/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 13:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evo-Morales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MAS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South-America]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
    The Vice Minister is a busy man.  He runs from place to place, with his cell-phone in one hand and a bag of coca in another, busily chewing the leaves as he answers calls and delegates tasks to his team of bureaucrats.  As he fills his mouth with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Agronomist</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/07/06/the-agronomist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/07/06/the-agronomist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jul 2006 14:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[international-development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neoliberalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[popular-participation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
    The agronomist is content to have his job.  He spends an inordinate amount of time shuffling through papers, signing them or making sure they have the proper signatures (all 10 of them), and the rest of his time is spent visiting communities to work on a disintegrated mess of what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mayor</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/07/04/the-mayor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/07/04/the-mayor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2006 22:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evo-Morales]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
    If the saying is true that all politics are local, then to get a real understanding of Evo Morales and his MAS party, one must look at the local characters that, from the beginning, have constituted the MAS social movement.

     

    &#160;In many regions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Festering Wounds</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/06/24/festering-wounds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/06/24/festering-wounds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jun 2006 00:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eduardo-Galeano]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evo-Morales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Latin-America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natural-gas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Potosi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
    Though it took more weeks than I had anticipated, I have given a general portrayal of the history of silver mining in the Bolivian town of Potosi.  The Cerro Rico was undoubtedly one of the largest and wealthiest mineral deposits in the history of the world.  Today, Potosi is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laminating Machines</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/06/23/laminating-machines/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/06/23/laminating-machines/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Casa-de-Moneda]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[colonialism]]></category>
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    &#160;In 1750 the Spanish crown sent these laminating machines to the mint.  They were made of oak.  They were sent from Spain to Buenos Aires Argentina, and from Buenos Aires they were shipped via mule train to Potosi.  Before this, African slaves and Indians [...]]]></description>
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		<title>La Casa de Moneda</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/06/21/la-casa-de-moneda/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/06/21/la-casa-de-moneda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
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    &#160;In 1759, the King of Spain, hoping to improve coin production techniques, ordered the construction of a new mint.    This is the courtyard of the mint, which is now a museum.  The Casa de Moneda, as it is known in Spanish, provides excellent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>El Tio</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/05/16/el-tio/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 May 2006 13:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[colonialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[El-Tio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Potosi]]></category>
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    &#160;Present-day miners make statues of the devil inside of the mineshafts, and offer him tribute of alcohol, coca, and cigarettes. Though this practice can only be traced to the 20th century, it is believed that it has its roots in colonial mythology.

     [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Potosi: The Gem of the World</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/05/12/potosi-the-gem-of-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/05/12/potosi-the-gem-of-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2006 14:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Evo-Morales]]></category>
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    &#160;The Spanish mine owners weren't necessarily overtly abusive to the indigenous workers.  They didn't have to be; the conditions in the mines were enough to kill the hardiest workers.

     

    

    &#160;Colonial miners worked, ate, and even slept in [...]]]></description>
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