Maria grew up on the shores of Lake Titicaca in the town of Copacabana.Of course Maria would have far preferred to be in school, but…
neilcoppenDecember 25, 2007
A visit to the Patosi Silver Mines in Bolivia, to get an alternative view of the state of things, proves both frightening and enlightening. A…
neilcoppenDecember 16, 2007
If not for the festive folk music, phycadellic salt pans, flamingo infested lakes, pits of sulphurous belching earth, I´d say im fond of Bolivia for…
neilcoppenDecember 16, 2007
To my unborn nephew/niece- but an inkling in your apache mammas belly.Whatever being you be- for at this point biology has not yet markated you…
neilcoppenDecember 16, 2007
Sunday morning and I sit on a bench in La-Paz , watch a Plaza market rising. Ignoring the persistence of shoe shine boys ( and…
neilcoppenDecember 9, 2007
He did not flinch in bidding Paris his hometown adieu: far too petite, too pretentious to contain his irrepressibly itchy feet. At twenty ”“two he…
neilcoppenDecember 9, 2007
Finding Atheism a godzillon metres above the ground,on a SAA flight to San Paulo, might not be the most advisable of epiphanies to find yourself…
neilcoppenNovember 22, 2007
Yesterday on a subway in Buenos Aries, a ratty haired girl placed a plastic bracelet on my knee. A gift i thought, till her extended…
neilcoppenNovember 21, 2007
“She's dead”, wails Elaine into the telephone “What?” replies Catherine, all mock shock and horror “Rosy,” she blubs uncontrollably, ”˜Rosy' “Dead?” “Yes” her mother sobs…
neilcoppenOctober 30, 2007