A local commercial: two little boys play soccer outside a stadium. They find tickets to the game that fell out of a man´s pocket. They consider using the tickets for themselves, but decide to return the tickets. Everyone smiles. The man goes into the game with his son. The two boys walk away with their arms around each other. Words appear on the screen: paid for by the anti-corruption campaign.
The government has decided to initiate an anti-corruption campaign aimed at children, because there is a lot of corruption here, Good idea, right? Unfortunately, I saw on the news last night that there is corruption in the anti-corruption committee—it seems that the boss gave himself a salary of $5-6 million US and similar amounts to his family. My family seemed a bit embarrassed about it, but we all know it happens in all countries...
21 September 2007
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it's funny, i'm learning loads of stuff i didn't know about ecuador from reading your blog...
and thanks for making me famous with the cotopaxi photo : )
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