22. Sex, drugs and salsa on the beach

After that meeting of the Peasant Organization plus the poor housing conditions, the mosquitoes, the bats, the antipathy it aroused among the drug traffickers, the loggers, and the peasants who wanted to legalize their properties in the Reserve, many of which were their patients, a tense environment was created

 In December he received an offer to work in Tonchigue in a new dispensary for fishermen.

The sea was one of his loves in life, being close to it was what he most wanted, while he was working in Esmeraldas, but in Tres Vías or the Boca de Rio Sucio, the sea was not present. Without hesitation, he made the decision to go there.

It was not difficult to pack up and say goodbye to his patients in Boca del Sucio, and Tres Vías, he thought that his departure was a relief for everyone.

The new dispensary was in Tonchgue, a parish in the Canton of Atacames, where there was the largest fishing community in southern Esmeraldas.

His father, his mother and she lived in Atacámes, just 30 minutes away by bus, when his father was the first private doctor in the most popular beach resort in northern Ecuador, in the early 1980s.

They were the last days of the hippies in Ecuador. The arrival of tourists from the Sierra, malaria, typhoid, and violence drove them away.

When they arrived in the 70s, it was miles of beach with palm trees. Most of the hippies were Europeans, from Germany, and the countries where the Nazis created the most brutal racial discrimination, so-called white supremacism.

In Atacames, the Germans married a black, mulatto, or mestizo dead and men, when they got tired of living sexual freedom accompanied by drugs and reggae.

Bob Marley, salsa, caipirinhas, cocaine, and the so-called bazuco, a mixture were the kings of the night. that you lived in beach bars or discos.

Hippies at first, thanks to contraceptives, injections, and medicines to treat venereal diseases and ignorance of HIV and papilloma, lived the change of partner the same night and adventures turned into repeated orgasms.

But soon the sense of ownership and the machismo of local men and women changed the sexual behavior of foreigners, but also the possibility of a visa to Europe and the United States became one of the objectives of the

 gallants.

Malaria and typhoid, plus sexual violence, which turned into rapes of the girls who sunbathed in their mini bikinis, and their breasts in the sun, which was considered a call to rape, which included gang rape.

The boys on the beach boasted of getting high on cocaine by the pound, putting their whole faces in the sleeves, which painted their faces white, while the gringos only sniffed the classic stripes.

Marijuana after beach soccer was what kept them in shape, with the spirit, the language, the gestures, and the spirit that caught the gringas.

For the police, human and women's rights were unknown. The same policemen considered that the gringas showing their bodies was a provocation that exempted the rapists from guilt.

The most fearsome rapist was a mentally retarded, an extraordinary diver on the lookout for gringas on the beach. When he saw them at the point in front of Castelnuovo, where there were some secluded huts, made of wood and straw, at the mouth of the Atacames River, he would rush towards them, with his huge and monstrous body, his cretin's face, showing his red tongue in his black face. With a clumsy but swift run, he caught them. This retarded man scared off foreign tourism.

On holidays, up to 40 thousand tourists came, with their cars, whims, vices, and ravings. That crowd was unbearable.

The beach boys considered it a victory to make everyone sin with sex or drugs and used their parents' hotel for casual sex, thanks to the corrupt employee they hired to guard that property, that's why they had to sell it. Atacames became a risk for his two daughters.

Máxima arrived at that new dispensary, which she met on the day of the inauguration when she also met the President of the IESS Board of Directors, who had an apartment on the beach, where 20 of the richest people in Quito had built a complex very safe and guarded.

"Excuse me doctor, the president of the IESS invites you to her house for a meal," the bodyguard told her.

-I'm sorry, but I'm with a previous engagement.

She did not leave her astonishment to see the new dispensary that had everything perfect, including two gardens. Her collaborators would be the same nurse from Boca del Sucio and the dentist from Tres Vías, with whom she had a very good relationship, but the president of the affiliates did not like it, she believed she was the owner of the place and they wanted to monitor her very closely. close to her.