I forgot to blog this back on Friday.
365.71 (3/12/10). Dry Law.
Absolutely no time at all today for even a quck snap. Indeed, all I had was my iPhone to take this.
This is the alcohol aisle in a Ley (ironically enough), a discount grocery store chain. Because of Sunday’s elections the dry law went into effect today at 6pm. No alcohol sales until after the election!
So, any colombianos who want to vote drunk had better have already stocked up!
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March 17th, 2010 at 9:40 pm
Interesting. I thought they only do this in places in the US.
Ok–next project for comparativists: cross-national study of ideology and voting behavior in dry precincts.
March 17th, 2010 at 9:47 pm
[...] Conservative Party primary and the President is accusing the Registrar of breaking the election day dry law or, in other words, of drinking on election day when he was supposed to be supervising the [...]
March 17th, 2010 at 9:48 pm
But who would want to do the field work?
March 18th, 2010 at 1:12 am
They do it in Mexico too. We discovered that the hard way.
March 18th, 2010 at 5:01 am
Colombians invented the “tinto claro” for just such occasions. It is your normal tinto (black coffee with sugar) but with an added shot of aguardiente.
March 18th, 2010 at 5:56 pm
Yep, I distinctly remember back in 1990, when I was in Pereira, Colombia, for the elections, going to the store with my hosts before Ley Seca came into effect. We had to have our Ron Viejo de Caldas for election day!