June 2021
Back in February, the sound of sirens blaring broke the calm of a normal working day here in Manta. I wondered what all the noise was about since the sirens seemed more like a parade than an emergency. It didn’t take long to find out; the president of Ecuador, Lenín Moreno, had come to town. He went through the city and headed out to the airport on the east side of Manta, by the sea.