Well, I suppose you heard about our attempted “coup d’etat” this last week. At least I know some of you did as I spent most of my afternoon answering a stream of IM’s from concerned friends and family trying to get the lowdown at ground zero. Yes, Ecuador has been known to overthrow a leader or two, the last democratically elected leaders before Correa were forcefully removed from office by groups of rowdy rowdy protesters. Elections results are written in pencil here, should they have to rewrite the results midterm. And this time the protesters were the police, disgruntled by a congressional act, ushered in by Correa, to reduce bonuses and pension plans of police and military as a means Read more