What’s in it for Ecuador?
If Ecuador grants asylum to Edward Snowden, no doubt we’ll hear Rafael Correa being described once more as a ‘tinpot president’, ready to welcome dissidents to Ecuador’s ‘jungly bosom’. If instead Snowden ends up in Venezuela or Cuba, his would-be jailers will move even further onto their moral high ground.
Book Review: The Farm on the River of Emeralds and The Saddest Pleasure, both by Moritz Thomsen
The Farm on the River of Emeralds I was inspired to get this book after reading the sequel in which, having left the farm in Ecuador which is the subject here, he embarks on travels through Brazil and reflections both on Latin America and on why and how he was thrown off the farm by […]
John Perry lives in Masaya, Nicaragua where he works on