No-one who heard it will ever forget the tidal wave of sound welling from the depths of the crowd that greeted the news that Mr Obama had won - it rippled back through the crowd that stretched farintothe darkness of thenight and seemed to hang and echo between the downtown skyscrapers.
On the first night, we camped farintothe jungle beneath tarps and ate barbecued beef marinated in lime juice in the company of a man who lives off the land and travels only by canoe.