[untenured]

Bolivia is about to be Venezuela South. It has been astonishing to watch the Chavez ideology spread like wildfire throughout S. America (and soon perhaps to Nicaragua and Mexico). I have never seen a region of the world turn on globalization as rapidly and completely and impatiently as South America (with Chile the exception that proves the rule) in the last four or five years.

[ARCADIA]

Another domino falls.

[IRememberElian]

More communism on the march in Latin America, undoing all the good work of the 80's. Who cares? The neocons would scare us about hapless Syria and Iran, rather than the dominoes falling in our backyard.

[AgThorn]

If all the resources are in the least populated regions, then it's not like some civil war will erupt between those that have and those that have not .. it seems that the 'people' need natural gas to cook and heat with.

Does anyone know how this population map coorelates with the 'resources' of the country? I've been to the Peruvian side of Lake Titicacca (hence my interest) but never quite made it to Bolivia.