The parents' situation

It's hard to collect myself at 4am on a friday night, enough to write this blog about Bolivian politics, even after downing a slice of Sicilian at Roma's Pizza and a bowl of Corn Flakes back at the house.  We rolled up Rivington tonight, first to The Johnsons, and then on to La Caverna, Fat Baby, 151, Pianos, The Magician, Mason Dixon, La Bodega Deli, were issued a citation for open beers on the street by the NYPD, and then back to the crib, hunting as always for mamies and dreaming of taking bodyshots of Malibu off a bodacious shorty.

But as per my goals this is not a journal, but rather a sharing of ideas, thus I need to transcend my current situation, and talk about something I know.  So here it is:

Bolivia faces a crisis of legitimacy, as Evo Morales' government seeks to enact change to benefit the poorest, but creates conflict and enemies with those who feel that opportunity is possible within the current system.  The kind of government handouts that Morales espouses only are attractive to those who have nothing and expect everything to come from the central government or international NGO's.  

As Santa Cruz and the "Media Luna" departments seek autonomy referendums in order to distance themselves from La Paz, Morales seeks to pass a new constitution in order to give more power to indigenous groups and move toward more central power.  This type of regional split is absolutely unsustainable, and everyone knows it.  And yet both sides make negotiations impossible by lambasts and boycotts.  So they pulled this childish move of calling a recall election of the president, vice, and all the governors, and the country is tumbling into turmoil!  My parents merely want to stay in their sites to see their projects through, and then leave on their own terms, but they are being stranded from the broadcasts.