In Peru just about everybody parades at least once a year. The police, teachers, printers, travel agents, cobblers, street lighting repairers, morticians, manicurists & other obscure professions all take part in processions. Today it was our turn as we were working for the Institute Nacional de Cultura & all the INC employees from the Cusco region were parading up the Avenida El Sol. I had been told to meet on the steps of the Palacio de Justicia at 10am but everyone else was told something else. While I was waiting hundreds of people walked by wearing ponchos, masks, suits or costumes nearing those seen at a carnival. One group in masks who walked past me shouted 'Hey gringo, Ollanta'. Ollanta being the narrowly defeated presidential candidate who was anti-tourist. I don't think they would have said
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