Ted, Ted, Ted

In Peru, where things can always be counted on to go from worse to even worse without stopping at bad, people are happy today because one of the lesser links in a long chain of public crooks was brought back from Venezuela for his putative comeuppance yesterday. Here’s hoping this show trial goes better than the last one. Here is a guy who spent many years as a stringer in Peru and now provides a useful weblog on Peruvian events. Reminds me of Konrad Borst, a German we knew when we were kids there. Konrad made a living by clipping the European financial press and providing translations to the local banks. He may have been one of the odder ones, but no third-world country we were in was ever short on eccentric U.S. and European expatriates flying under the radar, having colorful lives minimally connected to the official U.S. presence with its tennis clubs and 4th of July parties at the Ambassador’s residence and so on. Not counting the missionaries, who were supposed to be like that.