All day I've been trying to get this article from IMC Bolivia about the Bolivian referendum made into a feature on the global Indymedia site. I didn't understand the process so I wasted lots of time this morning, and then this afternoon, waiting. Now I finally know the process and realize that it's rather involved.
But I'm nearly there, and then i'll send it in as a real proposal to the feature group.
I'm doing this while sitting in my backyard again, the superhot portland summer is cooling with the coming of twilight. I'm drinking yerba mate from the gourd I bought in Montevideo. A copy of today's New York Times is sitting under my laptop, open to their page 6 story about the referendum, which basically just says that Mesa won, there's hard times ahead, how's he going to implement it, he's in a hard spot. Which is all true. I bet very few people envy Carlos Mesa's position right now, he is between Scylla and Charybdis.
But the NYT article, typically, doesn't talk to anybody on the street, except for one poll worker. That's why I like Jennifer's article, it is direct eyewitness reporting, talking to real people out there. it's biased, of course. everyone is.
UPDATE: Clara fron IMC Netherlands, who is on the features group, just featurized it, depsite my not having finished my formal proposal. yay! i have asked her to add one of the photos i found. there are quite a lot of good photos coming out of Bolivia IMC over the last couple days:
http://bolivia.indymedia.org/images/2004/07/10552.jpg
http://bolivia.indymedia.org/images/2004/07/10525.jpg
http://bolivia.indymedia.org/images/2004/07/10502.jpg
http://bolivia.indymedia.org/images/2004/07/10418.jpg
http://bolivia.indymedia.org/images/2004/07/10517.jpg
http://bolivia.indymedia.org/images/2004/07/10519.jpg
http://bolivia.indymedia.org/images/2004/07/10518.jpg