Reply #3: I hadn't thought of this, but surely they'd be GREAT hostages, wouldn't they?

[Judi Lynn]

These volunteers just might find themselves all ending up in the same camp together, almost like summer camp from their childhood. Easily could happen.

Had no idea Saul Landau had ever done work on films. Multi-talented man. That would have been such a good film to have seen, too.e

Regarding early Peace Corps workers in Bolivia: U.S. Montana rancher Ronald Larsen arrived in Bolivia back tathen as a Peace Corps worker, and within a year or two mysteriously ended up owning HUGE tracts of land. I looked it up once, and if I remember correctly, the President then was Garcia Mesa. At any rate, it was one of those super criminal coke narcotrafficker Presidents.

His son Duston became "Mr. Bolivia" in 2003 or 2004, around there. He's a spoiled, creepy, repulsive little brat who was a fraternity boy at one of the Montana universities. The father, Ronald, has divided his ranches and given some of them to his sons, and has been the subject of conflict because he keeps Guarani Indian people on his ranches who do ALL the work, including building lodges, etc. for tourists, for his Eco-Tourism business, and essentially keeps them as slaves, which is illegal as well as evil.

When people from the Bolivian government tried to go into the ranch to talk with the workers, Ronald Larsen and other ranchers and their employees gathered and shot the tires out on the vehicles so they couldn't retreat, and it's been said they kept them hostages and dealt innappropriately with them. Larsen is close to the white separatist huge landowners in Santa Cruz, the violent separatists like Branko Marinkovic, who has been implicated in the plot to assassinate Evo Morales, using imported assassins from Europe, whom the police blew up in a shoot-out at their heavily foritifed hotel room in Santa Cruz.

Right. I remembered seeing something about what I had remembered as one crematorium not so long ago at D.U., so I looked it up as an additional reference for the thread.

I think I'll just attach it to the one you posted when I find it. Thanks for the idea.