The Free Market Wins in Machu Picchu
By Rocky Thompson on February 2nd, 2010
Good news for citizens of the industrialized nations. There are almost no North Americans left in the stranded city near Peru’s Inca citadel of Machu Picchu.
Fernando Celis, one of 300 Chileans stranded in Machu Picchu, said that people were bribing rescuers. “A helicopter arrived yesterday to take out the elderly and the unwell and some tourists who had more money. There are almost no North Americans left, only the backpackers. People on tours who were waving their money about, they were all evacuated,” he said.
Buying your flight out while the elderly wait to be evacuated is something humanitarians probably won’t notice since their energies are focused on Haiti.
