Don´t Stop the Revolution

In case you hadn´t noticed (it has barely made the news in NZ, although it seems that the Danish news it much more onto it) there is a revolution going on here in Bolivia. La Paz has been a complete mess - Israel has evacuated 300 of its citizens, and many other countries have been preparing for evacuations. Fortunately, Potosi, where we are, has been pretty tranquil - only a few protests, and certaintly no violence. We have been, however, seriously effected by the road blockades that have paralysed the entire country, and have been unable to leave Potosi for most of the last three weeks or so, even if we wanted to. Things appear to be improving - the blockades lifted nationwide over the weekend for the first time in more than a month, but tomorrow (Monday), it could all be on again. It´s a bit of wait and see. However, if you´re wondering, we are nice and safe in our part of Bolivia - for us, life just goes on as normal - there´s still floors to clean and unfortunately the revolution has yet to spread to making the old men not need their nappies changed.