BOLIVIA: Movie Review : "Even The Rain."

SF EXAMINER/ J. Gereben/

   The Spanish film “Even the Rain” has been nominated for 13 Goya Awards and Best Foreign Film Oscar.
   The title is taken from a slogan in the struggle of the indigena peoples in Cochabamba to keep their water rights because they claim that the government wants to take away “our water, our air, even the rain."
   It stars Gael Garcia Bernal (pictured) and was directed by Icíar Bollaín from a screenplay by Paul Laverty.

BOLIVIA: Bus Plunges Thru Guardrail, Killing At Least 28, Injuring 44.

LAHT/    A bus loaded with children crashed between the cities of Cochabamba and Potosi in central Bolivia resulting in at least 26 dead and 44 injured.

BOLIVIA: Alternative Climate Change Summit Convenes.

GUARDIAN.UK/     Some 15,000 are expected to attend what some are calling the "Woodstock" of climate change summits in Cochabamba. Indigenous leader Quispe observes that "the COP15 (Copenhagen) was a total failure, so brother President Evo Morales has decided to call for this climate change conference to do something about it. We the people are the ones that should take the lead on how to tackle the climate crisis." The summit's intent is to give a voice to the world's poorest people.