Friday, September 15, 2006

Evo trying to end "El lamento boliviano"

Many years ago, Argentine rockers Enanitos Verdes cleverly summarized their agonizing love feelings in comparison to Bolivia's age-old cry over being poor and land-locked in ocean-happy South America. The lyrics, from "Borracho y Loco", one of my favorites:

Es mi situación/ una desolación/
soy como un lamento/ lamento boliviano/
que un día empezó/ y no va a terminar/
y a nadie hace daño.


Loosely translated:

My situation/ is a desolation
I am like a lament/ a Bolivian lament/
that one day started/ and will never end/
and it doesn't affect anybody.


Well, it definitely affects sweater-boy Morales, who will make his sea demand in the First ever Land Locked Summit in Cuba. Bolivia used to own an exit to the sea through the Lauca River, until Chile claimed it along with the Atacama province in the War of the Pacific (1890s).
Also happening in Cuba this week, Iran's Ahmadinejad makes his nuclear proliferation pitch to all the other Non-Aligned Nations in a more important summit.
With Castro and Chavez also making appearances, I'm sure Bush is thinking he could kill four birds with one stone on this one.

To all this, what is CNN Español showing? Fall fashion, of course.