Impressions of China

Pickup games at Tsinghua, from October. A couple of times a week I go to the Olympic-size pool on campus to swim. There are a dozen outdoor ...

How a Gringo teaches writing to Spanish-speaking journalists

This is a neat trick. You kind of fake it. You get them to teach themselves. I´m teaching an online course right now, How to Write for the ...

We're headed for Guadalajara

Since returning from England in January, I have been awarded a second Knight International Press Fellowship to launch a digital journalism ...

A newspaper launch

I'm back in the States with the family now for 10 days. I've been in England for the better part of five months now to help with th...

Last week in Bolivia, then Mexico and home

The editors of La Razon have a little coffee and snacks after another session of leadership training. The last week in Bolivia, June 11-15...

The red ponchos and talk of civil war

The Aymara people, who represent about a third of Bolivia, have a tradition of putting on their red ponchos when they go on a war footing. ...

People and places around Santa Cruz

These schoolteachers not only get low salaries, they get paid only once a month AND have to stand in line to collect it. You have to stand ...

The traditional Bolivian barbecue

In the great plains of Bolivia, they raise cattle and celebrate with big barbecues they call churrascos. "Let's have a churrasco...

Winter arrives in Bolivia

Winter here means cold winds from the south and temperatures in the 50s, occasionally dipping into the 40s. Few homes and commercial buildi...

Good Friday, Butch Cassidy and dangerous work

On Good Friday, I went to the main square in front of the cathedral to see the procession of the casket of Jesus. A military honor guard ac...

A trusted voice of news in Bolivia

Father Jose Gramunt, to the right, is a Jesuit priest and highly respected newspaper columnist here in Bolivia. He appears in the major dail...

A culture of bribes

Yesterday El Deber ran this picture of the head of the local Immigration office being hauled off to jail in a big bribery scandal. He is cha...

Veteran Bolivian reporter covers disaster

This is José Antonio Quisbert, reporter for El Nuevo Día newspaper, interviewing refugees from the flooding that has leveled vast areas of B...