Ecuador - 

I love a number of mining companies in this country: ARU, SRL, DMM. Each has a tremendous story and great potential.

Today I pulled out of all of them.... and it hurts.

Just wanted to mention this in case anyone looked at my 'favorite movies' over the last couple of weeks.

It is very sad... the direction of the new governent.

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iU8Xf_ly2O3xFcBcDUrBEPVeMZXQ

I'm certainly NOT comparing stock trading to the holocaust.. but this poem did come to mind:

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..., they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist; And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist; And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew; And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up."

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Cheers - and loving everything about NOT including Canada!

BK