cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/201550
It was a sweltering January afternoon in the Amazonian town of Puyo when Andrés Tapia realized his daughter’s public school fees were due. Like many Ecuadorians, he reached for his phone to make a mobile transfer. Carrying cash is too risky these days. Ecuador is in the grip of an ongoing security crisis, with transnational criminal organizations spilling in from neighboring Colombia and…
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morto@piefed.social · 17 pts · 168d
One more reason why getting rid of paper money is a mistake and an act not in our best interests
palordrolap@fedia.io · 11 pts · 168d
Literally in the blurb:
If you're not getting mugged by the government, you'll get mugged on the street instead.
morto@piefed.social · 9 pts · 168d
I don't know the exact situation in Ecuador, but I live in a country with very high criminality and also socioeconomically similar to Ecuador, so I can say that fear of violence in Latin America is stimulated and used as a weapon for removing rights from us and keeping our votes in the center or right wings, who submit to the hands of the USA. Things aren't usually as bad as pictured by the media, but people behave as if they were, out of fabricated fear.
traceur402@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 168d
It's the same as the "protect the kids" argument for policing overreach.. never about actually protectinp, all about overreaching
rarsamx@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 168d
Sure, they should receive donations in their piggy bank, right?
eleijeep@piefed.social · 7 pts · 168d
Wasn't Ecuador the country that made bitcoin an official currency? What happened to that?
Sequence5666@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 168d
That’s El Salvador mate
eleijeep@piefed.social · 3 pts · 168d
Ah that’s right. Thanks.