Quito        I’m tapping this out while listening as best I’m able w/ my crippled Spanish to what most resembles a bad cell phone connection with sentences and phrases coming in earshot between long silences in between.  The panel is high level.  Raphael Correra, the Ecuadorean President, came into this crowded room in the dramatic …

Lima        Changing planes in LIma for Quito, I’ve now left the area of south America where one reaches for water from the tap without concern.  Peru can be dicey, and Ecuador will be an education, all of which makes me think of the irony of bottled water.      Where you have to have it, …