let's hear it for grass roots movements?

so exactly what the hell did i get myself into? did i expect to find civil peace in a country that's thrown two of it's presidents out of office in the last ten years?

three dead, sixty asfixiated from the mustard gas last night. i went to the protest with my girlfriend, too be nice. but IT'S NOT MY FUCKING COUNTRY. they were chanting let's go quito, you don't fuck with quito, bitch. that's a rough translation of course.

everybody's in the street. and i can't get home because the roads are blocked off, and there's mustard gas? the motherfucking president is paying people to come in from the country to drink and to fight.
http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/free/imf/ecuador/txt/2002/0320shot.jpg

oh, that crazy latin america, what will they come up with next?


smirk on my face: "pray for me."