Peru and Ecuador temporarily recall ambassadors after supermarket brawl

[Zorro]

Ecuador and Peru on Thursday temporarily recalled their ambassadors after relations between the neighbors soured following a supermarket brawl in Lima involving Ecuador's envoy to Peru and female shoppers.

Rodrigo Riofrio, Ecuador's ambassador to Peru, allegedly hit two Peruvian women and insulted them with racist slurs after an argument in a checkout line on April 21.

Ecuador has argued that Riofrio acted in self-defense and rejected Peru's request to remove him from his post.

In the supermarket's security videotape, shown on Peruvian television, he is seen swatting a woman with a magazine after she hit him. Several women are then seen slapping him and pulling his hair.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/02/us-peru-ecuador-diplomacy-idUSBRE9410YZ20130502

[joshcryer]

1. Video:

Wonder what he said or did to piss them off. Sounds like a racial insult would do it. But it could've been anything, cutting in line, who knows. But it does look like the women took the first blow.

He's lucky he wasn't clawed in the face.

[naaman fletcher]

2. If they were right wing

A certain poster here would post unflaterring pictures and comment on their appearance.

[joshcryer]

3. The shopping center looks higher class.

And I doubt an ambassador would allow themselves to be seen in a low class store or buying from a street vendor. Which makes one question what he would've said that was racially insulting. From the low quality of the video they don't seem like indigenous people and they appear to be wearing nice clothing.

I wonder if he called them "bricheras" (gold diggers seeking white Americans or Europeans) which is why they lost their shit. Lima is well known for their bricheras.