Tag: Ecuador mk

A little more than half a century ago, at a time when humanity's gaze was looking at space and man's landing on the moon, a small notary's office in Guayaquil was dealing with an issue that pointed in the opposite direction, that is, towards the interior of the Earth. As Neil Armstrong walked the surface of our natural satellite, a taciturn foreigner from Guayaquil had legalized what is perhaps the strangest and most surprising document ever presented to Ecuadorian notaries. Incredible as it may seem, both stories intertwined years later in the depths of the Ecuadorian Amazon.