I finally got a chance to watch Rachel Boynton's excellent documentary "Our Brand is Crisis", a film I have been meaning to see since it came out sometime in 2006.  This one really set my wheels turning.   I don't have too much to say about the first 2/3rds of the film, as this is the [...]

I am back in the United States, having left Bolivia almost a week and half ago. There are many things in the Bolivian sphere I could comment on, but I am reluctant to do so. In short, I will comment on a few observations. Any hope that people might have had of [...]

Last Friday Bolivian President Evo Morales, accompanied by Marcelo Claure CEO of Brightstar Corporation, announced that Bolivia would provide a laptop for every child in the country. With Bolivia's entrance into the One Laptop Per Child Project, I've started to think seriously about some of the limitations of this initiative. On the very same [...]

It has been too long since I have posted in this blog. Not that I haven't thought about the issues that are confronting us...but it does get too overwhelming at times. I am writing this from Bolivia, South America, where I have been for over a month now. Last year I wrote [...]

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. [...]