Reclaiming Coca – It’s the real thing

The Coca Museum. I’d first read about the Coca Museum at Atlasobscura which it describes as follows: “In some ways, the Museo de la Coca is an anti-defamation organization, although definitely the most bizarre of any similar group.” (I’m uncertain …

Reclamation projects and other observations – part 3

Mi Teleférico. After our visit to the witches market, we spent much of the rest of the day soaring over La Paz and into and out of El Alto on the wings of the area’s mass transit system Mi Teleférico. …

Reclamation projects and other observations – part 2

Bolivia’s first indigenous president. As for Evo Morales, he was elected to his first five-year term in 2006 and, among his early acts as president, was convening a constitutional convention. That convention drafted a new constitution that was ratified in …