TV : Peru

How can Obama lose with backing like this?
(Do your best to ignore the patronising voice of the Associated Press narrator – we would have used the BBC version but they disenabled embedding)

The shamans of Peru are worried. The wrong result in the US election could see more economic crisis, environmental destruciton and war and so 9 of 11 of them are rooting for Obama. With llama fetus’ and incense, they’re chasing away those evil spirits and Republican smear tactics.

Whereas the whole thing rather smarts of a publicity stunt (at least two major news agencies paid for footage and the cash goes a long way in Peru), it does put the relentless media nightmare of a US election into some perspective.

Let’s just hope Obama doesn’t forget who to thank come fireworks day.

Tom has been traveling non-stop since the age of 18 and co-founded Road Junky in 2004. Follow him @tomglaister

He’s the author of Hand to Mouth to India, an account of hitchhiking from England to India with no money and which will soon be rereleased by Road Junky Books.

Tales of a Road Junky featuring tales of breaking people out of jail in Delhi, selling fake Rolexes in Japan and other adventures in Israel and Brazil will be out later this year.

He also writes fiction for anyone who never really grew up and his latest novel is Bozo and the Storyteller – download the audio book for free or even buy a copy…

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