Author Profile Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco is an editorial intern for In These Times and Documenter at City Bureau. Indian Country: The Situation is Bleak, But Not Hopeless Back in 2001, about 100 miles west of Kabul, in the Bamiyan Valley, the Taliban rigged two towering sandstone statues of Gautama Buddha with enough dynamite to wipe them clean from the cliff they were... MORE Rural America · December 17, 2018