Thread: Women in the mercado in San Salvador

Ok, I take a walk in the mercado in El Salvador Santa Tecla area. Incredible fruits, vegetables, meats, and women cooking up a storm. You can buy a huge bowl of Chicken soup loaded with plantain, yucca, chicken or beef, cabbage, otherwise known as SANCOCHO in other countries. All for only 2 bucks. They sell frijoles, Lote, coffee beans, tobacco, clothing, sandals, shirts, all kinds of things. Most of the proprietors are FEMALES. They run the show in those markets. I also noted a tortilleria where the ladies all made nothing but tortillas, in which they sold to all the eateries in the place. You can see "Competative advantage" at work there. The tortilla makers that is all they do because they do it best, and they sell to the ones making soups and other dishes, so they can put their time into doing what they do best, so they buy the tortillas from them, which in turn they sell to the other cooks in the market whom sell their product to their customers. Incredible to see self proprietors doing business and running their own economy. I suppose the males are into other jobs such as construction, security or whatever else they do. It works for them. Place is all mostly heavy set Indian looking ladies, of Mayan descent. It almost seems like taking a peak in the past on how the Mayans may have conducted business. And outside in the main park, there is a gargantuan tree. WOW! I wonder what kind of tree that was. Yes, interesting place indeed. Old school. The sun beating down over the surrounding tropical lush jungles of a small Central American city, where women sell their produce and other goods, in a not so far off land called EL SALVADOR!!!

Cool video on the mercado.http://www.guanacos.tv/mercado-duena...511858f13.html