My Two Sense

A bit of a rant here.  A lot of people here complain about the increase in crime and also the current President.  Now I am no expert on the President, I think he started off trying very hard to bridge the huge inequality gap in Ecuador and in the beginning was largely popular with all classes.  Now that has changed, and there is a much bigger resentment towards him from the middle and upper classes. There are a lot of new policies and laws that are very unpopular and it does seem like he is grasping at straws in many cases.  Either way, it does annoy me when the answer to crime is to build bigger walls and blame loads of people without examining root causes.  On our walk on Sunday, we walked across the river from two different neighbouring houses estates, seen below:

 These are three homes worth at least a couple million, they are huge, with all the trimmings.  Pools, gazebos, hot tubs, expensive cars the works.  Each probably houses 4 or 5 people at max.

Directly next door, separated by a small fence is a housing estate that has very few windows, largely falling down, and probably houses a few hundred people. It was just an amazing example of the huge inequalities in this country (and I know not just this country).  And what I do not understand is why more people living in the places above do not put together that maybe some people in the neighbouring community who have very little chance of upward mobility might be a tiny bit frustrated with the 3 BMW's next door and be a bit peeved about it. Anyways, just my two sense.

(as a side note I have no idea who lives in any of these homes, and they all may live in total harmony and all try and help each other.  It was just a perfect example of what I see all the time here).