We leave one road and step onto another. The buses give way to rumbling cars, the hostels to friends’ couches, the Spanish to English. I am now sometimes on the other side of the interviewer’s tape recorder. I had been working on the book,”The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia” (AK [...]
Entries from January 2009
Notes from the Road: Book Tour Heads North
March 27th, 2007 · No Comments
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The Price of Fire Goes on Tour
March 22nd, 2007 · 1 Comment
The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia (the book) and Benjamin Dangl (the author) are on a reading tour now! See listings below. I’ll be presenting the book and talking about the movements and conflicts in Bolivia and elsewhere in Latin America. The discussions will cover the presidency of Evo Morales, [...]
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Paraguay to Uruguay: Wind Through a Supermarket
March 7th, 2007 · No Comments
Asuncion, Paraguay is a forest of buildings next to a river. Dengue fever is everywhere, and so are the mosquitoes and insect-killing gases. Guys with tanks on their back pump the poison through the neighborhood to save us. And the mosquitoes keep biting. Even the cold tea drink that is so popular here doesn’t keep [...]
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