Panorama of the Week: Bolivia and the Banana Millionaire
Have you ever heard of the banana millionaire? Continue Reading »
Filed Under: Panorama by: Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott
10 Comments | 27 August 2010
Tag Archive for: Chapare
Bolivia: Travel to Love or Travel to Learn?
The folds of Bolivia’s beauty – and its contradictions and struggles — defy a story line.
– Our thoughts in Bolivia, First Impressions
Bolivia may defy a story line, but it sure does beg a visit.
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Filed Under: Bolivia, South America, Travel by: Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott
4 Comments | 17 February 2010
Cocaine: A Story That Begins in the Bolivian Jungle
I need to fill up the tank completely. Finding gasoline in Chapare can be unreliable. It’s one of the ingredients in cocaine production – and that gets first priority.
– Alvarro, our client and guide in Cochabamba, Bolivia explains why it’s necessary to gas up in the city before heading into the jungle.
Paraguay customs. We had just crossed the 200 mile desert frontier with Bolivia. Border agents dressed in knit shirts, their shoulders adorned in crossed Paraguayan and U.S. flags, scanned our bus’s contents –- all of it piled before us. As we waited for a drug-sniffing Labrador retriever to finish pacing and pawing suspect bags, we figured it was time to bring the cocaine story to its finish.
And just as we thought this, the guard approached, “Miss, place your bags up here. We’d like to take a look.” Continue Reading »
Filed Under: Bolivia, Paraguay, Perspectives, South America by: Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott
9 Comments | 2 December 2009
