A Scary Scene at El Cafecito
First typhoid hits Cuenca. And now a bold armed robbery of a well-established restaurant.
Two nights ago, several men brandishing shotguns entered El Cafecito, a restaurant/bar/hostal popular with gringos and travelers. (I ate dinner there last week.) The men, surely aware that the place would be full of tourists, robbed everyone there, pistol-whipped an employee, and reportedly put their guns up to some of the patrons’ heads. A friend of mine, unluckily, was there; he lost all his credit cards. And two more of my friends, not knowing what had transpired, arrived 30 minutes after the robbery; the police, supposedly, took 45 minutes to arrive.
In the 11 months I’ve lived here, nothing like this has happened in the center of the city.