Ecuador’s Vote Recount Comes Up Short – Bloomberg

Well into Tuesday night, blue-vested electoral officials sitting in plastic deck chairs combed through some 1.3 million disputed paper ballots in a recount that would decide the nation’s next president. The setting: Rumiñahui Coliseum, in Quito, Ecuador, where Latin America’s faltering pink tide still wells and the national script is too important to leave strictly to the vagaries of democratic fair play. Read more>>