How’d I miss this? Here is a terrific Bolivian blog from a Santa Cruz perspective called Blog de Bolivia by Alvaro Piaggio, written with a fierce eye on Bolivia’s democracy struggle, in the context of other democracy struggles around the world today.

Santa Cruz, Bolivia is the market-oriented, free-trading, libertarian half of the country, brimming with industrious immigrants, with a cold view of the communism preached by coca-grower Evo Morales. Alvaro’s blog is in Spanish but if you can read it, the perspective is crisp and fresh, not what we are used to getting from the jaded mainstream media.