The recent labor unrest in Ecuador seems to have excited a lot of the fear Gringos have of crime. Not all gringos but many vocal ones. A strike by police wanting to keep their perks is worried into a revolution. I would say this bidding up of events was because US citizens have such a tranquil existence...but it's not true. Plenty of the run of the mill human emotion spills over and onto the street here. Why should it seem more extreme when it happens elsewhere. Does it reinforce the perception that the world hates us?
Anyway, the president of Ecuador will survive this and the Ecuadorian government will deal with the law that prompted it. One government ratchets up the benefits given to its political base and the next government, unable to pay these perks, attempts to reduce them. Same situation was happening that week in Europe. Strikes over new labor laws in Spain.
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