This morning our local taxi driver, Francisco, picked us up for the short trip along the bay to La Cruz de Huanacaxtle, where there is an excellent fish market. We caught up on family news. His two small children go to a primary school which is closed because the air conditioning does not work. This in a town full of air-conditioned apartments for foreign visitors. All ‘teaching’ is now online: teachers set assignments for children to complete on a mobile phone. Francisco’s wife happens not to work so she can care for the children and ensue their do their assignments. But in many families both parents work, so the suspension of school is an economic as well as an economic problem. There seems to be little that the parents can do except resign themselves to the indifference of those who they elect to govern them. Of course, if Francisco’s family was wealthy and the children in a private school, this would not happen.
At La Cruz we bought some pez vela (sail fish) and robalo (akin to sea bass). I left a 20-peso tip in a jar marked propinas and as I put it in the jar I realized it was full of water. The man who served us explained that they wash the banknotes. So I am now a money launderer!
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