Light posting this week

I will be back online later this week once I wrap up a freelance article. Hang in there.
Meanwhile, enjoy this photo from the most pathetic museum I've seen to this day -- One commemorating the loss of Bolivia's sea access to Chile more than 100 years ago. It was full of maps showing Bolivia's incredible shrinking area.








This is a quote by a Bolivian fighter that translates roughly to "Surrender? Let your grandmother surrender, damnit!"
We all know what happened soon afterwards. And since then, Bolivia has been whining to get its ocean view again. And amazingly, Bolivians still hold out hope that Chile will cave. Imagine if Mexican newspapers almost every day reported on talks between low-level Mexican and American diplomats about the return of California and Texas.
Give it up.