Quito At breakfast the last several mornings I have read the Miami Herald Latin American edition with some interest. Today there was an interesting story about Cuban immigration through Mexican ports along the Yucatan and the increased traffic there. Closer reading turned out that the difference between last year and this year was less …
Category: Personal Writings
Peripheral
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 …
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 …