Colombian Police are Friendly

Or so my fellow delegate Dennis thought - so he decided to go over to the police hanging out on the side of the road opposite the meeting hall where the flower worker´s union march ended and say "thanks guys for your support." Our interpreter David was game so I watched as Dennis, dressed in his union logo polo shirt (international brotherhood of electrical workers) went äcross the street to give a friendly Atlanta Georgia "hey y all". The police looked quite confused but as David said their orders at this point were to stand around and scratch their balls. So they all just smiled and thought Americans really are a buncha wack jobs.

Not only is Dennis a great character but he saved my journalistic ass by coming up with a microphone I could use for my minidisc, which I forget in the haze of international travel (that´s my excuse and I´m sticking to it).

As I said before tommorow is the big May Day march and then we´re off to Medellin that evening, so who knows if I´ll be able to write. I may be reporting live on KPFK if we can coordinate.

Hasta manana.....