17. The narco-shrimp farms

At 6 p.m., Máxima was back in Puerto Nuevo, which seemed to her a peaceful town, since most of the settlers were peasants who went during the day to take care of their animals and their farms.

That afternoon, as never before, the Sucio River seemed cleaner than usual, since it was usually full of sticks, and more things that she dragged from her. At 6 pm Máxima was back in Puerto Nuevo, which seemed to her a peaceful town. , since most of the settlers were peasants who went during the day to take care of their animals and their farms.

That afternoon, as never before, the Sucio River seemed cleaner than usual, since it was usually full of sticks, and more things that it dragged from its origin in the Mache-Chindul Mountains.

She went to the shore where the children crossed the river to get to the school and she put in her well. The water seemed delicious, she had a warm temperature, the best to alleviate the hot suns that with deforestation tormented animals and humans.

Then she went back to the promoters' house, hers put on her bikini and went back to the river to swim. About 100 meters on the other shore, the children and a young woman were also swimming and playing on the shore.

Then he tried to swim upstream and realized that it was very difficult, the current almost did not allow him to advance, but downstream it was the opposite, each stroke made him advance rapidly several meters, when at that, from the curve of the river a The boat was speeding straight into her. She managed to submerge herself and stepped over her head. When she stuck her head out, she heard a man yelling at the other

-I think we ran over someone who was swimming.

- Salados bad luck answered the motorist, if I stop the police will reach us.

Máxima went to the shore to analyze the situation in which she saw death on her face, when about 100 meters away another boat appeared in the meander of the river, but with policemen holding their straw hats with their hands so that they would not blow them up.

- This engine is slower, it is only 75 horsepower, theirs is at least 90- the motorist shouted.

The policeman saw the doctor on the shore and shouting she asked him. The other boat is far?

The doctor wanted them to capture those who almost killed her and she replied, no, they no longer reach them, their motor is stopping all the time.

-Thanks. Come on, we already have them.

- Stop them they almost killed me, if I don't dive in time when I was swimming, they rammed me.

-Please report to the Muisne prosecutor's office to file her complaint, that would help us a lot.- she yelled at him as she walked away from her.

The doctor returned walking along the shore, that allowed her to see the most distant part of the town, while she dodged the stones and thorns on the road.

When her neighbor, Dona Gertrudis, arrived, she asked him at the entrance of the promoters' house that she was taking care of her. -Did you see the boats that passed at full speed, doctor?

- Yes, the first one almost ran me over when I was swimming

- That was from a shrimp farm that is in Tortuga, in front of San Gregorio, sometimes it comes here, Puerto Nuevo to carry or shop. The other was of police officers chasing them.

After that lucky event, Máxima took a break and went to visit Angel Bolaños, the leader of the promoters who had a store next to the field. The tall man, aged but bony and healthy, was carrying a bucket of cheese that he had just finished preparing.

-Good morning Don Angel.

- Good that you visit us! This is my wife. She was a much younger woman who already had two children from another engagement and now she was pregnant with Don Angel.

-I came to buy you something at his store. He has tuna, noodles, and water.

"Sure doctor," answered her wife, Doña Sonia, immediately.

"I just saved myself from dying in the river," she commented while pouring herself a glass of soda that was offered to her.

-I heard two boats on the river rushing up.

- One of them almost ran me over when I was swimming in the river.

-They are from San Gregorio. Shrimp farmers have arrived there that have 100 hectares in Tortuga, which is the largest mangrove in the river before the Muisne River is formed. They all say they are drug dealers who hide drugs in the pools, the police have already found drugs in some shrimp pools from Chamanga to here. Apparently that's why it's all the fuss.

- The policeman in the back boat asked me to go to Muisne to report them.

- They are dangerous people, better leave that matter to the police. They can attack you. The Choneros Cartel is operating from Pedernales, apparently working with the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico. This week they captured a plane with I don't know how many millions of dollars, the drug traffickers are looking for millions of dollars that they say were stolen from them, it is not known if the police or who. There are already some who appear dead and tortured.

- Is right. Don Angel.