Originally Posted by
wyeaster
if countries like the u.s. work to destabilize your country, and oil companies and banana companies (and of course prior historical assholes) fuck your country up the ass, extracting and exporting massive wealth and polluting the fuck out of everything and expanding widespread poverty, environmental concerns are hard to cultivate.
the turtle might have died for food, not sport.
the signs are more or less "luxury on the road," referring to the truck, and "the friend who never fails," referring to jesus.
the bars on the windows are everywhere in the country, to prevent break-ins. many exterior cement walls around properties are covered with large shards of broken glass and other disincentives.
i talk with everybody i take pictures of and frequently pay them something small or buy whatever they're selling for their images. these are just shitty cell phone pictures.
the man in the wheelchair who lost his leg is not nearly as old as he looks and two of his three sons have died already.