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 …
Category: Personal Writings
Short Shots
Quito In another setback for globalization DHL did not come through, so this is another "thumbnail" report – literally. Tom Robbins wrote a book about a cowgirl years ago, when I still read fiction, who had a huge hitch-hiking thumb. To think another couple of days like this and I might have two thumbs like …
Left Leaving Labor
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 …