Jungle Outtakes

So, if you’re reading this…thanks. Obviously put down the blogging awhile ago. Well, in November of last year I spent some time in the Amazonian province of Pando in Bolivia working on a story about land reform. There is a program to resettle people in to the jungle areas on to what are called “Tierras Fiscales”, which essentially means land that belongs to the government. Sara Shahriari and I spent about three weeks in a town called Puerto Rico (Bolivia) with a group of settlers that were living in a tent camp there while they are trying to get land in the jungle.

I posted an edited, more coherent story on my (new) Web site and you can see it here: The Promised Land. These are a few that I like anyway that aren’t in that edit…and may make it in. This was essentially a first trip and my intention was to go back, now, but life has changed a bit and I am back in the U.S. I am hoping to go back to finish up the story though. I think its important and interesting. Thanks for taking a look.

I will posting some more soon.

-steve