大象传媒

Hello

My name is Juan and i wonder if there is a chance to get all your reports on a DVD, i do not know, but i asume that you have a lot of video footage about bolivia and its surroundings.

many thanks for a great blog.

juan

Pity Morales does not seem to believe in the division of judicial, legislative and presidential powers.You are not kidding when you mention some of his supporters want to go back to 1492.Let's bring back child sacrifice?If I recall my history his version of it is a little distorted.The Inca's did not quite spend much time on consensus building with the Aymaras.Consensus means you do what the men from Cuzco want.
On a pedantic note, gas has been around for a lot longer than ten years-first mention of the Brazil-Bolivia pipeline was in the early eighties.
I don't agree w/ your comment about institutions being strong-look at wha thappened to Goni and his succesor!
Interesting program , even though you should have pronounced Bolivar properly-it ain't that hard!Keep up the good work, and tell the 大象传媒 translator to cool it .Viewers would probably want to hear Morales , even if they don't understand him-tone and delivery are also powerful means of communicating-and Morales in fact does sound reasonable when he talks, not as excitable as your chap!

Do you think you can do an interview with Chavez? Ask him why the murder rate has doubled in his country since he came to power. The government say the official murder rate is down in 2005 to 9500. Could that also be because the government refused access to the morgues so journalists could not verify the official figures last year?
Not much of a social programme when somewhere in the region of 100,000 people have been murdered, mostly poor, since he came to power.
I have been in the country 5 years now and personally knew 3 people who have been murdered. In 40 years of living in the u.k I knew no one who this had happened to.
I never knew anyone in the u.k. who had a member of the family who had been kidnapped. Here I know of at least 10 or more families this has happened to- I actually do not keep count. Last month a neighbour had his throat slit and his body thrown over the wall next to my apartment.
Last week my girlfriend helped negotiate the release of a friends son from kidnappers. We are not wealthy, not poor, but all I see and hear are lies coming from this government. Oh and the corruption is just too extreme, it's everywhere.

Dear Sir.

I believe that your take on the interview with evo was extremley romantic. I am not very happy with the new approach of european intelectuals (or pseudo intelectuals like reporters) romanticism and fetichism on allowing social experiments on developing countries. You should set aside your guilt trip and be truly critical. As of Reporters there needs to be more neutrality. In your article you coined santa cruz as a ultra right wing facist city. This is the case for some archaic leaders that come from the school of thought that supported dictatorships. This is a minority that has a voice but is bound to die down due to its anachronic nature. Furtheremore the laws are made in La Paz, where the real power resides. Santa Cruz has merely barganing power. This article is leading readers to take sides. Santa Cruz is a dynamic city that redifenes its identity constantly, grows 60,000 per year, has the youngest population in the country, the highest econominc growth, is the definition of modern bolivian cosmopolitanism (intra and internactional).
On your next visit to bolivia, or if you reside there u might want to reaserch the new social movements in santa cruz, its motivations, and its constant change. There is a young majority in Santa Cruz that despises social exclusion, needs channels to comunicate their message, wants to move away from a reactionary discourse, believes in national unity and is fed up with being depicted as macho, gun loving oligarcs.

Thank you and sorry for the initial ranting,

Cheers