Elections this weekend, which means the bars and wh0rehouses were all shut, and none of the shops would sell drink. All over Latin America they ban alcohol during elections in case people get drunk and vote for the communists.
I’m not allowed to vote or get drunk, which strikes me as bleeding monstrous, if not an abuse of my human rights. But they do it to try to keep the violence and looting to acceptable levels. All it takes is a small sherry before luncheon and they’ll come pouring down from the slums in an enraged mob, hacking up the middle classes with machetes. They always try to pass it off as Latin exuberance.
You would think the mobs could simply go to the supermarket a day early and buy Saturday's sherry on Friday, but that would require a level of organisation which in our case we have not got.
