Friday, May 28, 2010

It's Election Time...


...and you know what that means??

LEY SECA!

Ley Seca means Dry Law...and here in Colombia, when there is a national election, ley seca is implemented for the entire weekend. So starting today at 6pm until Monday morning, no establishment in Colombia is allowed to sell any alcohol of any kind.

The law is intended to promote security during volatile election times.

but p.s. it's not always during elections. Aerosmith played a concert here a week ago and Ley Seca was implemented in the surrounding 20 blocks of the park where they played - also to promote security. When Metallica was here back in March, all hell broke loose, rioters, looters, etc. They didn't want that to happen again. And it didn't from what I hear, all went pretty smoothly.

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