Ciao!

Writing, grudgingly

01.11.2005

After a sad (and lengthy) hiatus, I've finally updated dBlog. I took a jumbled draft w/ me to Europe, and managed to find a few hours to make various margin notes. Some of them were larger elements that weren't "correction" or "comments" but rather "I must adds". So I've posted those.

Writing my dissertation gives me mixed feelings. Things are so dynamic right now, and the last year made me realize that I missed something really big. Since, you know, I entered the dissertation w/ the idea of studying Bolivia's two decades of remarkable stability. And now, well, I'm faced w/ (most likely) watching the second president fall in 15 months. Some stability, eh?

Sure, if I hurry, I can probably get this published. Because if Mesa falls, or (the chances continually increase) there's a military "intervention" or a serious attempt at secession (from the eastern departments), then Bolivia's once more "interesting" to a wider audience. I guess that's my little self-serving silver lining, eh?

So my focus now's on the literature review. I don't really want to deal w/ outlining the history of Bolivian politics just yet. Especially w/ the end-point so up-in-the-air. I'll focus instead on getting the lit review just right, and on crunching the electoral data figures for my MPSA paper.

Oh, and Mesa? If you're reading this: Answering calls from a growing number of sectors of Bolivian society for your resignation, by threatening to resign as president, just doesn't seem like a good strategy.

And on a totally unrelated note, I will post pictures/notes from Barcelona by tomorrow.

Posted by Miguel at 12:26 PM

Comments

Posted by: sam at January 12, 2005 05:44 PM