Quito Somehow with 2 million people spread across this particular landscape, the poor are less visible than in many other Latin American cities. Quito is spread out along the narrow valley between impressive mountains soaring somehow more than 9000 feet above seat level. Despite the fact that we are on the equator and the quick …
Category: International
Bananeros Y Flora Trabajores
Quito There were widespread estimates of the size of the workforce in high dollar export agriculture of bananas and flowers in Ecuador, ranging from a million in each to a more realistic figure of 500,000 in each or perhaps, as one expert offered, 360,000 in bananas and a similar number in flowers. Either way 700,000 …
Subcontracting
Quito Talking to people about workers and working conditions in Quito, repeatedly the problem of subcontracting came up quickly. This was not the usual run of the mill, subcontracting but a situation of legal avoidance brought to an extreme. Every enterprise was required by law to pay formal workers in public or …