Global friends to the rescue.

The author focuses on how the expatriate communities in Ecuador helped in delivering the mural created by the Patchogue-Medford art students of Shannon Lustig in the country to honor the death of Ecuadorean immigrant Marcelo Lucero in Long Island, New York. Topics include the donations from the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) president Dick Iannuzzi, the battle with Guayaquil custom, and the fundraising made by the expatriate community in Cuenca to rescue the mural from customs.