Excitement! Yesterday, all day was the day to vote ¨Si¨ or ¨no¨ on changing the constitution to allowing for a president to run for re'election indefinetly. As you probably heard, the vote was for ÿes¨.
We spent the day in town with some college students from Washington. Almost every business was closed in town during the day besides a few restaurants. At the areas to vote, we ran into people standing in the streets discussing there stance on the issue.
Late at night when the count was in the town erupted in excitement fireworks were set off, and a caravan of cars and people travled around the town shouting victory to the neighborhood.
Its been very interesting to hear the reasoning behind peoples votes for yes, and no, on the issue. Its unfortunate but I guess expected to sit hear and read the US media´s articles on the issues and find them very one sided.
Peace and Love
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