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Travelling to Ecuador need to read immediately.
In the many years that I have operated out of Ecuador, it's a rare occasion that I fail in my mission to entertain and fulfill male needs as much as humanly possible that is till today what a shit show.
So I had been talking to Mr. S for a while now I had an AirBnb set up the whole nine so he comes in on American at 1. 15 pm and I get a phone that I have never gotten in the past the player that I had been in communication with was detained at Ecuador Immigration checkpoint WTF moment 214 of the day so Mr. S is frantically calling me from inside the airport I cannot even enter to see him or talk to anyone because the Airport security is managed by a private company that will not allow you to go in unless the express permission of the government agents inside the pre-gate area. Mr. S is a professor of Spanish and Portugues so I doubt that there was a language issue but he was held there and firmly and politely told that he could not stay in the country and that he needed to leave he put an Ecuadorian agent on his cell phone and I was finally able to speak to a human he told me that regulations did not allow him to permit me to enter the inside area of the airport but that he was going to be well treated and that he was not allowed to go in the country because he had a negative recommendation on his passport by the source country in his particular case the US Mr. S has a criminal record in the past and Ecuador and the immigration agents exercised their power and discretion and made the decision to not allow him to enter the country, the reason given is because Mr. S had no visa a retarded statement since no visa is needed for a visit less than 90 days.
I took the shit personally but after speaking to some associates I finally got the scoop which I shall impart to you humans so gather around children Doom shall speak.
Ecuador in its eternal wisdom reserves the right to turn away any noncitizen and because of a current wave of corruption the immigration officials are being bigger dicks than usual why? Well, there was a wave of corruption cases that have exploded lately involving Albanians Syrians, and Lebanese who came in legally into the country and were given citizenship and allowed to set up enterprises as a front for illegal activities all the while circumventing regulations regards following due process in Ecuador. This caused the immigration office to suffer a wave of firings and the state of regulations is now in overkill mode I am certain the immigration office is not as bad as North Korea but it certainly is not like it was before.
As of the moment of this writing after much deliberations with an immigration attorney, it seems that there is a path to legal travel to Ecuador even if you have a heinous criminal past, and it's perfectly legal you can apply to the nearest consulate office of Ecuador there are several in the US and expose your case to the consulate assigned to that office he can review your case and give you a waiver but you have to have a local Ecuadorian attorney do it and have the documents apostille in the state that you live and have a local citizen to vouch for you and the whole nine so for all you naughty boys which there are many, you need to consult preferable with me or the people at the [URL]https://partyecuador.com/[/URL] they have a legal staff available to deal with this particular issues. In the meantime, an immigration attorney was able to get a pic of Mr. S inside being detained, at least we know he is well and will return to the US at 6 am I shall be working with Mr. S and coordinating with the nearest consulate so he can come in the future, although whether he will do so or not after this debacle is a different conversation.
The infamous muerte cruzada
So I have not done an episode like this in a while and I have been getting a lot of emails and Pms regarding what is going on in Ecuador and why is the supposed democracy we have in danger all fair questions so I will attempt to explain the foolishness that is going on in the country.
A long time ago to what seems to be a lifetime ago a particular president at the time who was rather combative in his approach to governance even though he was popular was afraid that because of his opposition to his government one day the opposition would be to such a degree that he would be out of power, no surprise he pissed off the US when he was a mere minister of government, gave Julian Assange asylum, put down an indigenous uprising, was in constant battle with a right-wing mayor that is just for starters, so it's no wonder he felt besieged therefore he created a mechanism in the constitution that is colloquial translated to "mutual death" aptly named it's the stupidest idea on the history of governance yet it seems to be on the books since 2008.
So the way this constitutional mechanism works is that the president and only the president has the authority to dissolve congress legally if he feels that they are impeding his authority, after such power has been exercised he can rule by decree for the period that it takes to call for a general election, everyone's position is on the ballot all of congress and also the president's if whoever wins whether the opposition or the incumbent president the day he is inaugurated he can start his 4-year term as it's counted since he won the new election.
The danger of this action is that if you are an unpopular congress person you are not getting reelected and if you are an unpopular president you are also not getting elected, chaotic, and unstable, it seems to me to be a recipe for poor governance hence the reason why it has never been used but since the president who it seems according to him being impeached over trumped up charges, he has hinted that such measure is on the table.
As usual, it's quite a shit show.
A race track in Ecuador one of the best.
This was a post inspired by my homie gringo Loco he called me one day and asked why are there any racetracks in Guayaquil so I thought about it for a bit and I recall a time when there was a race track with betting and everything, however, since the economic downturn in 2000 there has not been a robust economy to support such business models but near my hometown of Samborondon so I made a happy video about it hope you all enjoy. The Miguel Salem Dibo racetrack has been around for 40 years it has a historical significance it is more active than the only other racetrack up in the Andes region of the country but this one in Samborondon is more involved.
[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIezBrjb66c&t=244s[/URL]