Maude Barlow Loves James Bond

Mary Frances and I just saw the newest James Bond flick, Quantum of Solace.  We both enjoyed it. Interesting premise: Bond thwarts a plot to control the world's water.

The climactic scenes occur in Bolivia, where the bad guys have shut off the water to a village. The evildoers are trying to sell villagers bottled water made by purifying llama urine with GE equipment. Probably wanted to privatize the supply or something.

Maude Barlow, shown here in character, has a cameo as comely Canadian agent Ima Frostback, Bolivian President Evo Morales portrays a Bolivian general who's really on the CIA payroll, and Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, shown to the left, plays a bumbling bellhop at a posh hotel catering to rich Americans.

NOT!

Well, the first four sentences are truthful.

Good fun and the bad guys get their butts kicked.

"That's a Smith & Wesson, and you've had your six." -- James Bond

Comments

[Aquadoc]

Hi, H.W.

Thanks for commenting.

You're not the first person to notice that. I am now forced to respond.

Yes, it's a picture of Castro. By the way, Evo Morales is not in the movie, nor is Barlow or Chávez.

And the woman shown is not Maude Barlow, but the female lead in the film, Olga Kurylenko (who is not portraying a Canadian agent named Ima Frostback).

It's all tongue-in-cheek.

[H. W.]

It's a picture of Castro and not Chavez...

[David Zetland]

Thank God for Bolivian secret agents!