What a crappy year to be a Peace Corps volunteer in Bolivia. These adorable optimists had barely stepped off the tarmac in La Paz before the State Department started briefing them on how to be secret spies for the US. And in seven months time they'd already been yanked from their service in order to send a political message to Evo Morales.
Anyway the PCVs weren't too happy being, as one of them put it, "another weapon in the US diplomatic arsenal," and so last week 70 of them quit the Peace Corps en masse, vowing to return to Bolivia and continue the volunteer work free from government control. And now Otto reveals that the CIA has been monitoring the most outspoken of the crew, on her blog, because this actually is some sort of priority for the Bush Administration, which is scary as hell.
