That's interesting to hear. I have not been back to Greece since the day after Janis Verifacis resigned as finance minister.

During the time that I was there, it was clear that the support for the government's negotiating position and for a generally

tough response to the creditors was extraordinarily strong and remained so surprisingly to many people in the government

for a long time now all the way through the negotiating period and was still strong

up obviously at the end when the 61 1⁄5% have voted no in the referendum.

So I'm not surprised to learn that there are ongoing measures of resistance and I imagine

both active and passive on the part of the actual administrators

who must be reluctant to see economic entities under their jurisdictions being destroyed and dismantled.

Also one hears about the farmers who have been obviously caught in a squeeze between

the reduction of subsidies and the increase of taxes and their mortgage payments,

taking their equipment out onto the roads and blocking the highways.

That kind of thing, is all perfectly, in my view, understandable.

So the question of whether this will bear in any decisive way on the political situation or the relationship with the creditors.

It's an open question at this point, the problematic because unlike the situation before January 2015,

there isn't really a distinct political alternative for the Greeks, the party that they thought embodied that alternative has turned into the colonial administration.

It leaves them with very few options from a political standpoint.

Well, in that case, it's not surprising

that what you saw is what you saw

that people are taking such steps as they can take

with the means at their disposal.

And some people that we spoke with as well said,

it is possible that Cyprus is kind of now become this colonial government

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