So it is Holloween in Ecuador. This is a holiday in as much as Cinco de Mayo is a holiday in the US; it is simply and excuse for a party. It is a major holiday weekend here anyway with All Saints Day on Sunday and a minor independence day (there are several here) on Monday, so one more party is fine.
So what greeted me on Halloween here in Ecuador? Well the tides changed yesterday and now the beach is littered with dead stuff - turtles, birds, fish, and thousands of jellyfish heaped into piles. That really wasn´t a good sigh. So instead of swimming I settled in to read the daily paper (while I cannot speak a lot of spanish, I can read it) and was met with a story about the CIA infiltrating the Ecuadorian armed forces. Here is the link to the CNN version.
No one really cares about that down here. Correra, the President, seems to be pushing any possible story forward to distract attention from the poorly managed changes mandated under the new consitution. Yesterday Correra declared that the country needed to move away from using the US dollar as the official currency and called for a common pan-american currency called the Sucre. Only Venezula and Bolivia commented on this. Everyone else just ignored Correra.
Well enjoy your weekend. I will try to push through a few wrap-up posts about my time in Canoa. Next week Drew and I leave for the mountains and make our way down to Peru.
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