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 [...]

This past week, the nationalization of Bolivia's gas industry has drawn much attention in the global media. In part because of the dramatic way in which Evo Morales ordered the Bolivian army to seize the country's gas fields and "protect them with your lives". [...]

Jorge Quiroga, known in Bolivia simply as Tuto, was Evo Morales' primary opponent in the December elections. As I have mentioned before, a vote for Evo Morales was in many cases a vote against Jorge Quiroga. Why would citizens vote against Tuto instead of voting for Evo? [...]

In a dialog between blogger Marcelino Fuentes and myself, sparked by a recent post on NAFTA, I have found myself to be in complete disagreement with Marcelino's conclusions. He argues that cheap, imported corn is a boon to Mexican consumers, and that our grandchildren should be willing to pay for our [...]

The first advocate of Open Source was none other than the patron saint of neoliberal economics: Adam Smith. Although Smith's classic The Wealth of Nations has become the de-facto Bible of the neoliberal agenda, invoking Smith to justify cut-throat capitalism is nothing more than a distortion of his true philosophical [...]