Justice in Ecuador
On October 11th the Modern Languages Society was fortunate enough to be able to invite a distinguished High Court Judge from Ecuador, who talked to students of Spanish in the Upper and Lower Sixth about the justice system in Ecuador and, in more general terms, about the history and development of his country. He spoke with precision and knowledge about a most complex country, giving food for thought about the origins of the external debt, about some of the reasons for poverty in Ecuador and the background to the hold of the drugs trade in the country. His Spanish was crisp and erudite, with a very different flavour from the Castilian Spanish to which students at Solihull School are accustomed. The talk was well attended and we look forward to more stimulating talks which open up our horizons, in the future.
Mrs M A Barrett