The Gringo Tambo is looking for a new roommate.

Hi everyone! Does anyone read us anymore? We haven’t posted in a while! I’ll try and work on that soon.
In the meantime, the actual, physical Gringo Tambo aparment is looking for a new roommate starting in November. If anyone reading this needs housing in La Paz or knows of someone who is looking please let [...]

An Invitation to Visit the Fundación Flavio Machicado Viscarra

As many of the GT members and readers will be in Bolivia for “summer” research or just travel, I wanted to invite you all to check out the activities and resources provided by the Fundación Flavio Machicado Viscarra (FFMV).
The FFMV is a small foundation that aims to conserve and make public the intellectual and cultural [...]

Bolivian-American to be part of Obama White House Staff

Here in La Paz, everyone is abuzz at the appointment of Cecilia Muñoz to head the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs in Barack Obama’s White House. Muñoz was born in the US to Bolivia parents who immigrated to Detroit in the late 1960s, and still has family in La Paz.
She is an accomplished lawyer who has [...]

Committed to their Cause, Peace Corps Volunteers Return to Bolivia

Miguel posted this at Pronto* but I wanted to post it here as well because I think this is great news. The Peace Corps was evacuated last month when violence broke out in Santa Cruz and Pando, and the Bolivian government booted the US Ambassador.
This article and photo story in the Washington Post describes how [...]

Constitution approved by Bolivian Congress, Referendum/Election dates set

Last night on television we watched as thousands of people from all over Bolivia danced and cheered in the Plaza Murillo celebrating the Congressional approval of the new Constitution. They called it a “fiesta por la democracía”. I didn’t watch all of the proceedings, but inside the Congressional building, I listened to Alvaro García Linares [...]