Just Another Day in Paradise

Greetings from Upside-Down Land, where people throw sticks of dynamite at each other to solve disputes. Private cooperatives clashed with the government-owned companies over control of Bolivia´s mines, which seems absolutely and utterly idiotic considering Bolivia has been pushing to nationalize all their other resources, namely the hydrocarbon industry. Nonetheless, logic and reason seem to have a loose hold here in Bolivia. So, we now have a very tense situation and several dead miners.

See some of the madness for yourself. It´s in Spanish, so just watch for the dynamite explosions. Keep in mind that this takes place in Oruro, where I live. Also keep in mind that there are no laws/regulations/restrictions as to who can carry dynamite; if I wanted, I could go buy twenty kilos of the crap right now.

http://www.univision.com/content/content/content.jhtml?cid=981868

Cheers to the rest of the world where logic and reason prevail (to a certain degree).