<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post112665426796231008..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>32</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112767342106393871</id><published>2005-09-25T14:37:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-09-25T14:37:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The problem may not be a worry about commenters su...</title><summary type='text'>The problem may not be a worry about commenters such as yourself deliberately spouting disinformation, but rather a worry that commenters such as yourself are simply uninformed.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;In The Religious Situation by Paul Tillich you get several fascinating passages on the lack of Protestant art.  I&#39;ll cite a few.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;In the theoretic sphere not even an earnest attempt has been made to </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112767342106393871'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112767342106393871'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html?showComment=1127673420000#c112767342106393871' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112665426796231008' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112665426796231008' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 25, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112766628791513161</id><published>2005-09-25T12:38:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-09-25T12:38:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>What I found most disagreeable about this discussi...</title><summary type='text'>What I found most disagreeable about this discussion is the notion that everyone is someone&#39;s disinfo agent, that if you try to keep the facts straight, you must be PR for the &#39;other side.&#39;  Dishonest people assume everyone is on the same level. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Disinfo artists contribute nothing to a &#39;powerful artistic tradition,&#39; Protestants have contributed plenty, to inject another fact into your </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112766628791513161'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112766628791513161'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html?showComment=1127666280000#c112766628791513161' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112665426796231008' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112665426796231008' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 25, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112757950634172391</id><published>2005-09-24T12:31:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-09-24T12:31:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>This is very helpful, Guillermo.  Let&#39;s stay in to...</title><summary type='text'>This is very helpful, Guillermo.  Let&#39;s stay in touch.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112757950634172391'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112757950634172391'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html?showComment=1127579460000#c112757950634172391' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112665426796231008' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112665426796231008' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 24, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112751536229548265</id><published>2005-09-23T18:42:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-09-23T18:42:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Hi Kirby,Part of me (the one that reads poetry) sa...</title><summary type='text'>Hi Kirby,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Part of me (the one that reads poetry) says: &quot;Yes, there&#39;s plenty of hope.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But I also feel much like you do, that so much of Latin America is lost to a variety of problems so complex and so disastrous that it&#39;s a never-ending crisis.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think you&#39;re also right about the extremes of left and right being so dangerous and murderous in Latin America.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;In </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112751536229548265'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112751536229548265'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html?showComment=1127515320000#c112751536229548265' title=''/><author><name>GJPW</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13383940105241352465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112665426796231008' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112665426796231008' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-669631030"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 23, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112750656067457255</id><published>2005-09-23T16:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-09-23T16:16:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I should have said Stalinists to one side, and Fas...</title><summary type='text'>I should have said Stalinists to one side, and Fascists to the right. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Neither one of which gives me much hope, and at any rate they are mirror images of one another.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Then I sometimes mutter to myself something, &quot;Catholics.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;How is it that you have such a powerful artistic tradition but such a weak intellectual tradition, while we Protestants have such a powerful </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112750656067457255'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112750656067457255'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html?showComment=1127506560000#c112750656067457255' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112665426796231008' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112665426796231008' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 23, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112750641385146214</id><published>2005-09-23T16:13:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-09-23T16:13:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I hadn&#39;t even thought of this Chavez dude.  When I...</title><summary type='text'>I hadn&#39;t even thought of this Chavez dude.  When I see corruption in South America my eyes kind of glaze over and I start to channel surf.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Aside from Costa Rica the entirety of everything south of the Rio Grande appears to be corrupt. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Guillermo, is there any hope?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It seems to me that on the right you have real fascists, and on the left, real communists.  Neither one </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112750641385146214'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112750641385146214'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html?showComment=1127506380000#c112750641385146214' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112665426796231008' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112665426796231008' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 23, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112744730504699125</id><published>2005-09-22T23:48:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-09-22T23:48:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>No problem, Ian, I take no offence. Even if we dis...</title><summary type='text'>No problem, Ian, I take no offence. Even if we disagree, I hope we can at least debate or discuss differences. Which is something I&#39;m only recently learning how to do. I&#39;m trying to be more open to the views of those who support Chavismo, since it is a political movement with some ideas that I agree with. Anyways, no big deal.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;--Guillermo</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112744730504699125'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112744730504699125'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html?showComment=1127447280000#c112744730504699125' title=''/><author><name>GJPW</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13383940105241352465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112665426796231008' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112665426796231008' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-669631030"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 22, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112743549231851280</id><published>2005-09-22T20:31:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-09-22T20:31:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Guillermo,I apologize if you found my posts insult...</title><summary type='text'>Guillermo,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I apologize if you found my posts insulting.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112743549231851280'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112743549231851280'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html?showComment=1127435460000#c112743549231851280' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112665426796231008' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112665426796231008' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 22, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112742997417396217</id><published>2005-09-22T18:59:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-09-22T18:59:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ian, I don&#39;t believe that I was shamed into wantin...</title><summary type='text'>Ian, I don&#39;t believe that I was shamed into wanting to know more about Che Guevara, merely curious.  I looked up your links and came away with an even worse impression than I originally had.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But I&#39;ve never understood Marxists or their wish to centralize as if they alone have some kind decency.  It&#39;s a completely indecent idea frankly.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Whatever.  I&#39;m with Guillermo Parra so far</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112742997417396217'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112742997417396217'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html?showComment=1127429940000#c112742997417396217' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112665426796231008' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112665426796231008' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 22, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112742991148984642</id><published>2005-09-22T18:58:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-09-22T18:58:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ian,You seem to make certain broad assumptions abo...</title><summary type='text'>Ian,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You seem to make certain broad assumptions about me. For instance, I was born here in Boston, so I am as American as you are. I grew up in Caracas for 7 years and have returned as often as possible to visit my family who still live there. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;My family in Venezuela is middle class and mestizo, far from being &quot;upper class.&quot; Believe it or not, Venezuela once had a large and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112742991148984642'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112742991148984642'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html?showComment=1127429880000#c112742991148984642' title=''/><author><name>GJPW</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13383940105241352465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112665426796231008' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112665426796231008' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-669631030"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 22, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112741047322172980</id><published>2005-09-22T13:34:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-09-22T13:34:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>My initial comment was spurred by the daydream--an...</title><summary type='text'>My initial comment was spurred by the daydream--and it was only that, since my knowledge of the history and politics in Venezuela is about nil--that Chavez bore a striking resemblance in manner and substance to Fidel Castro during the first years of his dictatorship.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Say what you will about Castro--and as I said before he is a very complex man, albeit a very emotionally impulsive one-</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112741047322172980'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112741047322172980'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html?showComment=1127410440000#c112741047322172980' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112665426796231008' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112665426796231008' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 22, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112739864584397066</id><published>2005-09-22T10:17:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-09-22T10:17:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Guillermo,You seem to be stuck in a generation for...</title><summary type='text'>Guillermo,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You seem to be stuck in a generation for whom Chavez’s core supporters offer little in the way of material support and your expat community will accept any factual inanity and overlook any atrocity so as to restore full rights of property owners.  I am not opposed to a leftist critique of Chavez, I am opposed to the rank distortions of your essay repeated from sources intent </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112739864584397066'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112739864584397066'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html?showComment=1127398620000#c112739864584397066' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112665426796231008' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112665426796231008' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 22, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112736611740976714</id><published>2005-09-22T01:15:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-09-22T01:15:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Oh God,Poor Ian, stuck in preacher mode fawning ov...</title><summary type='text'>Oh God,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Poor Ian, stuck in preacher mode fawning over the most reactionary administration to ever rule in Venezuela. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Slow down, I never said Roberto Bolaño supported Carmona (who is indeed another fascist). Do you actually believe that the entire Venezuelan opposition supported Carmona? I suppose that&#39;s your privilege as a &quot;radical&quot; intellectual, since Venezuela is simply </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112736611740976714'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112736611740976714'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html?showComment=1127366100000#c112736611740976714' title=''/><author><name>GJPW</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13383940105241352465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112665426796231008' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112665426796231008' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-669631030"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 22, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112734631339013542</id><published>2005-09-21T19:45:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-09-21T19:45:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby,Since I seem to have been enterprising and s...</title><summary type='text'>Kirby,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Since I seem to have been enterprising and strident enough last night to have shamed you into reading Che essays I should come up with some response.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Michael Lowy’s intro to ‘Marxism in Latin America from 1909 to Present’ gives a good overview of the significance of Guevara’s writings and his revolution and writings’ historical relation to the period of ‘Stalinist </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112734631339013542'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112734631339013542'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html?showComment=1127346300000#c112734631339013542' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112665426796231008' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112665426796231008' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 21, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112734513536741380</id><published>2005-09-21T19:25:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-09-21T19:25:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I heard that Allende also put a lot of hits out on...</title><summary type='text'>I heard that Allende also put a lot of hits out on political opponents including conservative journalists.  We usually get a one-sided picture that Allende was some sort of perfect angel, and the right were demons.  But I think they were all killing each other on every side in that country.  We&#39;re not doing that yet at least in this country.  Let&#39;s hope that never starts.  It&#39;s generally only </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112734513536741380'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112734513536741380'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html?showComment=1127345100000#c112734513536741380' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112665426796231008' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112665426796231008' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 21, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112733240991943456</id><published>2005-09-21T15:53:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-09-21T15:53:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Hey, wait.  I didn&#39;t mean that communists should b...</title><summary type='text'>Hey, wait.  I didn&#39;t mean that communists should be injured.  No way!  I admit I was making an egregious pun that could be read in that way, but (here&#39;s my escape route) I was actually arguing that communism would be punished by capital(ism) in that communism tends to collapse from the viewpoint of economics because the party faithful run the economy (and usually very badly) instead of it being </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112733240991943456'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112733240991943456'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html?showComment=1127332380000#c112733240991943456' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112665426796231008' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112665426796231008' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 21, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112732660367332382</id><published>2005-09-21T14:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-09-21T14:16:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Guillermo, I read that Tropical Fascism essay of y...</title><summary type='text'>Guillermo, &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I read that Tropical Fascism essay of yours because I didn’t want to make any rash character judgments.  I could have skipped to the Sources section:“The Economist: Some of the best analysis of the Venezuelan political landscape” or that the NY Times was “for the most part, objective” when Otto Reich’s PR campaign and referendum drive was in full gear but is now “slanted” now</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112732660367332382'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112732660367332382'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html?showComment=1127326560000#c112732660367332382' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112665426796231008' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112665426796231008' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 21, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112731709387292058</id><published>2005-09-21T11:38:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-09-21T11:38:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ian Keenan,You&#39;ll probably be disappointed to find...</title><summary type='text'>Ian Keenan,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You&#39;ll probably be disappointed to find out that Roberto Bolaño was very critical of the farce of Chavismo in Venezuela. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Bolaño was intelligent enough to see the shades of Stalinism present in the populist, militaristic rhetoric of a dangerous charlatan such as Hugo Chávez.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;--Guillermo</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112731709387292058'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112731709387292058'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html?showComment=1127317080000#c112731709387292058' title=''/><author><name>GJPW</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13383940105241352465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112665426796231008' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112665426796231008' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-669631030"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 21, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112731635072358812</id><published>2005-09-21T11:25:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-09-21T11:25:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ian, almost all of my posts and writing are about ...</title><summary type='text'>Ian, almost all of my posts and writing are about the circulation of images.  I find it entertaining to see which ones circulate and which ones don&#39;t, even within the topic of masturbation (I wrote that one a while ago didn&#39;t I -- perhaps a decade back?).&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The logic of aesthetic circulation is what fascinates me.  I like sometimes to put in images or thought-phrases that have been ruled </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112731635072358812'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112731635072358812'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html?showComment=1127316300000#c112731635072358812' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112665426796231008' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112665426796231008' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 21, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112727086184177299</id><published>2005-09-20T22:47:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-09-20T22:47:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>To digress to the point Ron was making for just a ...</title><summary type='text'>To digress to the point Ron was making for just a second, South American lit, like the place, has everything there is elsewhere in the world only more extreme, including poetic qualities found in novels and the lack thereof.  An example of the tragic lack thereof is the realist muckraking novels of Vallejo which are aesthetically far removed from his poetry.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;On the other hand Juan Carlos</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112727086184177299'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112727086184177299'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html?showComment=1127270820000#c112727086184177299' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112665426796231008' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112665426796231008' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 20, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112726254635476642</id><published>2005-09-20T20:29:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-09-20T20:29:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby, I won&#39;t argue that Fidel didnt&#39; make a fine...</title><summary type='text'>Kirby, I won&#39;t argue that Fidel didnt&#39; make a fine mess of his country, but it&#39;s isn&#39;t idle speculation, either, to imagine what his country might have been if the U.S. hadn&#39;t taken such a combative attitude towards him in the first months of his regime.  We virtually drove him into the arms of Moscow.  The folks at the Pentagon should have been made to answer for that:  What were they trying to </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112726254635476642'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112726254635476642'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html?showComment=1127262540000#c112726254635476642' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112665426796231008' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112665426796231008' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 20, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112726142628440403</id><published>2005-09-20T20:10:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-09-20T20:10:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby, I gather from your missive that you would h...</title><summary type='text'>Kirby, I gather from your missive that you would have had Breton killed for his politics in the thirties so you would be free to speculate about what his politics would have been had be been alive, the kitsch image free from the real person setting the record straight.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I liked your essays better when you covered topics like masturbation.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112726142628440403'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112726142628440403'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html?showComment=1127261400000#c112726142628440403' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112665426796231008' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112665426796231008' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 20, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112726058814899117</id><published>2005-09-20T19:56:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-09-20T19:56:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;m in favor of capital punishment for communism.B...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;m in favor of capital punishment for communism.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But as long as Che&#39;s mug makes good capital flow (the romance! the romance!) then fine.  Breton would have had nothing to do with Castro, Mao, or Hoxha, or with their mugs.  But I&#39;m the guy that likes Billy Collins, and I countenance the circulation of kitsch as a fundamental aspect of poetic capitalism.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112726058814899117'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112726058814899117'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html?showComment=1127260560000#c112726058814899117' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112665426796231008' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112665426796231008' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 20, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112725922535147365</id><published>2005-09-20T19:33:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-09-20T19:33:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby, if you want to progress from being a shallo...</title><summary type='text'>Kirby, if you want to progress from being a shallow smear artist you can study the economic debates of 1963-64 in both Cuba and the 4th International where Che was the leader of the faction against Stalinist bureaucratization and in so doing encountered heavy resistence.  My guess is you won’t which is no loss to historical scholarship.  My memory of the surrealism spat with you is that the truth</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112725922535147365'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112725922535147365'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html?showComment=1127259180000#c112725922535147365' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112665426796231008' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112665426796231008' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 20, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112725367152164471</id><published>2005-09-20T18:01:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-09-20T18:01:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Che Guevara was a Stalinist through and through an...</title><summary type='text'>Che Guevara was a Stalinist through and through and ordered a lot of political murders as Castro&#39;s right hand man in the late 50s.  He later came to adore Mao.  He never renounced Stalinism even in the 1960s.  After his death Jean-Paul Sartre called him something like the most important figure in human history.  I forget the quote exactly.  You sometimes have to laugh at the French.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112725367152164471'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112665426796231008/comments/default/112725367152164471'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html?showComment=1127253660000#c112725367152164471' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/09/who-was-it-who-first-proposed-bolivian.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112665426796231008' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112665426796231008' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 20, 2005"/></entry></feed>