A short column I wrote for Tiempo Político1 came out today. I won’t have time to translate it, but the column (“Ingeniería electoral: el sistema de voto alternativo [Electoral engineering: the alternative vote system]”) is based on this this earlier post. And w/ that I’m off on the road to Pittsburgh.
In the meantime, check out a special spread in La Razón in honor of the Sucre anniversary celebrations. These have taken on new poignancy recently, with the country’s original capital (until 1899) reasserting its regional demands in the context of the constituent assembly. On May 25, 1809, Sucre rose in revolt & declared its independence (the “grito libertario”): it predates most such moves in Latin America (Caracas, April 1810; Buenos Aires, May 1810; Bogotá, July 1810; Mexico, September 1810), w/ the notable exception of Haiti (1791).
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1 Tiempo Político is a weekly supplement published by La Razón (La Paz) & edited by Carlos Toranzo, director of Instituto Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Sociales (ILDIS) in Bolivia. ILDIS is supported by Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES), a foundation tied to Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD).
