news of the extraño

Could be a scene from some banana republic movie starring Woody Allen or Richard Dreyfuss:

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/americas/10/01/offbeat.ecuador.punctuality.reut/index.html

That was great, Kahukini! I sent it out to my whole foreign language department (ok, and history and English deparments! They've got equally warped senses of humor!). Nothing like REAL culture lessons!

Formikahini, apparently part Ecuadorian herself if punctuality is any measure...