The whole town, it seems, has turned out to watch Rafael Correa and his "itinerant cabinet" follow a donkey around. The donkey, named Alonso and festooned with slogans, leads a long motorcade in a U-shaped path around the centre of Banos, an Ecuadorian mountain resort of some 20,000 people. Three months into his term as Ecuador's president, Mr Correa has taken to travelling around the country, every three weeks or so, dragging a good portion of his cabinet secretaries along with him, in an attempt to bring government closer to the people.
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