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Tyler Bridges

Tyler Bridges

E-mail Tyler at tbridges@mcclatchydc.com

Tyler Bridges is a South America correspondent for McClatchy, based in Caracas, Venezuela.

He spent a dozen years at the Miami Herald, covering state and local politics in Tallahassee and Miami, and was a foreign correspondent based in Lima, Peru. He also covered state and local politics for The Times-Picayune newspaper of New Orleans for seven years.

He is the author of two books on Louisiana politics, "The Rise of David Duke" and "Bad Bet on the Bayou: The Rise of Gambling in Louisiana and the Fall of Governor Edwin Edwards." Tyler has won a batch of national and local awards for his newspaper coverage.

Tyler is from Palo Alto, Calif., and graduated from Stanford University, where he was a member of the Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band. He is an avid fan of the San Francisco Giants.

See his Web site at tylerbridges.com.

Tyler Bridges's Latest Story

Bolivians head to polls Sunday with divisions deepening

By Tyler Bridges | McClatchy Newspapers

Three governors have stopped eating to protest the president, and Marxist teachers have been blocking streets throughout Bolivia in the run-up to a plebiscite Sunday that was supposed to strengthen the country's democracy. Instead, Bolivians will decide whether to recall President Evo Morales and the country's governors amid a deepening climate of political and geographic polarization. The divisions have become so pronounced that in the past week Morales had to scrub campaign trips to five of Bolivia's nine states to avoid violent protests against him. » read more

Posted on Fri, August 8, 2008

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