Ecuador update

I am back in Ecuador now, and the weather is much nicer than it has been.

Anyway, I know I promised (and i know you've been DYING to hear) an update on the Ecuadorian elections. In the end, the left leaning Correa won out over the the filthy rich Noboa. Correa is now the new King of Ecuador, here is his castle:

In other news, Lucio (the former president who was removed from the position and banned from participating in this years elections, thus his brother faithfully stepped in) is showing himself as the good Latin American politician that he is through his already posted presidential candidate posters for 2010.

Don't you love Latin American politics?!

As far as my construction update goes (Brendan, i am truely less than impressed with your coverage), this is what I found when returning to my pretty pink building. Apparently the owners of my building intend to build a TALLER building beside ours (on the left)... my flatmates are not happy about this.

And last but not least, here is an intersting video from my return from Colombia. I thought I wrote about this before, but I don't see it posted anywhere. On my way back from Colombia there was a landslide that prevented our bus from leaving on time. I left my hostel at 5am and arrived in Quito at 12am... it was a long day. Anyway, the landslide was really interesting because, I guess due to the other few landslides I have seen here, I had expected it to be a rocky, dusty, and more or less dry landslide. However, when I arrived to the site I found that it was rather a huge mudslide. The road was covered in mud and water and tree branches and debris. There was no one killed but unfortunately a truck was driving past at the exact moment of the slide and was swept or bulldozed off the road and half buried in mud. You'll see that for ages before we actually reach the truck the road is still covered in mud, I guess from other mini mudslides. Here's my video as we drive through what was about an hour before a huge pile of mud.

Note: take note of the music the busdrivers take pleasure torturing us with. There is no choice either, the music is so loud you can't even drown it out with your own music, you just have to enjoy it.