On May 20, 8:57*am, Tim Watts wrote:
On Monday 20 May 2013 08:01 harry wrote in uk.d-i-y:

*Panama and Ecuador have used US dollars for years.

I did not know that. I work with an Ecuadorian - I must ask him why...


Ecudador is one of these places with constant inflation/economic
chaos. About 2000 ago they abandoned their own currency and took up US
$

Bit here on the whole sad story.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuador#Currency