Today we visited the mayor and then did an hour or so of service work. The mayor was very nice and inviting, he originally was a van driver who was part of the Mas party. The Mas parties ideals come from allowing social organizations in the government well also making sure elites aren't assigning position based on self-interest. The job of mayor is tough, he said it's hard to make everyone happy and often if he agrees to something the people often want more. It's not easy being a mayor over the 120 communities in Coroico -a number Sonya said used to be 104. The growing population gives demand to his addition of two new high schools in the area, a project costing 7 million dollars. For the schools he has hired a contractor to who hires people from the community to help build the school well teachers are going to be paid by municipal fund. We also talked about how the community is ran. Community leaders come to represent the interest of their community's. Economic prosperity comes from coffee, coca, citrus, pumpkins, tourism, and biking.
