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45. The last days of Argentine tourism

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For Máxima, it was incredible that those affiliated with the Las Gaviotas and El Faro Rural Health Network were submissive and obedient to a doctor who treated them with a kick, shouting and rudeness, who arrived or left on time. that he wanted, he was missing inventing any excuse, especially that he had to deliver reports or go to courses. Seeing on the door of the office that sign that said. Here do not abide ugly irritated him and reminded him of Stalin, who one day showed the other members of the Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union how to address the people, he took a live hen, he collapsed it in the most brutal and then bloody, put her on the floor, and made her follow her by giving her a seed and the hen meekly followed her. His father, who went to Russia to study, told him that Stalin selectively killed 20 million Russians, was genocidal of his own people, and at his death, the Russian people mourned him as if they had lost a father. But also, Almost Cute was a

46. The drug gang members

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One day when leaving Las Gaviotas, he dropped his wallet with his personal documents and $ 20. when he did stunts to get the station wagon up to his roof, where he liked to travel like the backpacker, taking photos of the beautiful landscape of the very green tropical rainforest, on the shores of small beaches, which at sunset lit up under a colorful sky, golden first, then orange, and finally red. Losing his personal documents was a big problem, because he had to go to Quito and do an annoying procedure, for each one of them, this is the identity card and the stupid ballot. Although this government had completely changed the Civil Registry, making it more dynamic, comfortable, where it was no longer necessary to pay the processors, because before it was lost all day in an endless queue of people. Having to allocate a trip to Quito and all day, plus the payment of fines at each window, an annoying wait, which took me a long time to do. More than a month went by before he was finally ab

44. El Faro and Las Gaviotas the other side of the world

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The first person that Dr. Maxima went to visit in El Faro was the curandera Dona Briseida, who participated in the Puerto Viejo promoters' workshop. Her house located next to the church, in the park, was now a place where the images of the church were, among them San Francisco, the patron saint of the town. -What's all this doing here? she-she asked the old woman, who was the one who led the prayers in the church, she had cared for the children of the town in the children's center, and she was the one who cured them of fear, evil eye, and bad air. -I have them here while they repair the roof of the church, they are changing it. At that moment, her son Alejo arrived, who was very excited to meet the daughter of one of her dearest friends, Maxima's father. - Are you Dr. Máxima? He-he asked as he gave her a very heartfelt hug, which made the doctor smile. - Yes, nice to meet you. - The pleasure is mine. - Well now that I'm here I want to take the opportunity to take th

43. The rude disappointment

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The illusion of having a technological institute in Santo Tomas became a life objective of Don Roberto, the husband of Doña Mercy, the alternate assembly member, but the government of President Corredor had created a large, heavy, inoperative bureaucratic apparatus that it entangled and made everything difficult. SENECYT was filled with an endless number of bureaucrats and each one was a bottleneck, which hindered everything. The months passed after the donation of the land had already been legalized, which to those bureaucrats seemed ideal, but the political pressure of the mayor of Santa Rosa, who was from the government party, motivated the change of location of the project to one of the parishes of Santa Rosa, where the municipality donated land, which had a community police unit or UPC. The Municipality of Santa Rosa used its road equipment to flatten the land, build the sewers, and while that seemed to be going from strength to strength, Don Roberto, one of the loyalists of the p

42 The Mafia World of State Unions

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The Peasant Health Network, education, the ministry's health network, the universities, the La Esperanza State Refinery, were the syndicates in the hands of the Stalinist Maoist Movement. In each of these unions, the mediocre became power, for example in education the teachers, more corrupt, had control, as in the Universities, or in the Peasant Network. The Stalinist Maoist Movement, in addition to being financed with the contributions of public employees, doctors, or teachers, was financed with what it took from the contributions of the peasants affiliated to the Peasant Health Network. That was the price that the members paid for the labor gains they had achieved, thanks to the work stoppages and strikes they made. The strikes were at the beginning of the school years in the Sierra, this is in October, or in the Costa in March, and these strikes could last for months when state education became the worst education in the country. These strikes were also common in the health netw

41.The fearsome meetings of doctors and dentists

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Like every first Monday of each month, the doctors of the Rural Health Network met in La Esperanza, to present their reports, and on occasions to receive a talk that was dictated by a colleague, or a visiting doctor.  At that meeting, there was news that 5 Cuban doctors joined. Some of them were overqualified, like the emergency medicine doctor, with 20 years of experience, who went to work in the most difficult place of all, on the border with Colombia. Most of the doctors were coastal graduates from the University of Guayaquil, considered one of the most complicated in the country, as it was certified as a category D university. It was a den of opportunistic politicians, especially those on the extreme left, who put teachers on and off. , gave the title to the students who joined the party, participated in the demonstrations, or paid with money, or sex. This university came to be controlled by a famous criminal, who trafficked inland and took over the University because they could no

40. Narco-corruption in the rural health network.

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That opinion of the provincial director did not like at all his cousin the nurse, who was the one behind all the racket to get Dr. Máxima out of him. - Berta Are you behind all this that has happened? - I only asked the president to organize the assembly to change the schedule. It is very difficult for me to work on Saturdays and Sundays, but also, I cannot help my children with their homework, because I arrive at my house almost at 10 at night, the neighborhood in which I live has been damaged, it is dangerous. When I arrive my children are already asleep. Their grades and performance in school have dropped. But the president decided to make up this whole charade against you. She has a deep hatred for you because the other day she claimed you, she yelled at her in front of the patients and practically sent you out of the dispensary. Coincidentally, the week after the assembly to remove Dr. Máxima, in a dispensary near the city where nurse Berta lives, the nurse died of a heart attack.

38. 38. The origin of narco-politics

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The theater therapy that Dr. Máxima and actress Alex had an important impact on the students, as it allowed them to identify the behavior of boys and girls, the dangers they had in their own families, where domestic violence was a cultural problem, since the girls were victims of the abuse of their parents, stepfathers or stepbrothers, in homes where the children had frequently had stepfathers or stepmothers and stepbrothers. That the boys had a passion for technology, cell phones, and tablets, or electronic games, that they played on the internet, and to pay the boys cheated, or even stole. It made it possible to discover how fashion, music, and sports brought them together. But also smoking, drinking, and even taking drugs or dancing, which were ways of appearing attractive, liberated, predisposed to sexual games. "Today we have to film in the park, on the beach, and in the cemetery," the boys proposed -Okay but .... What are we going to film in those places? -On the beach,

39. The assembly to get the doctor out

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When Máxima arrived at the dispensary of the Red Campesina de Salud de Santo Tomás, her orchard of medicinal plants had been destroyed, but the worst thing was that the president of the affiliates and her husband, who was the president of the Cooperativa de Pescadores, had done An assembly in the exteriors with the users, in it they proposed to remove Dr. Máxina from the dispensary, accusing her of being a mountain woman, this is born in the Andes, that she gave medicinal plants to the medicines and that the 4 dollars a month that the affiliates contributed was so that they give them medicines, not plants, but also, in collusion with their relatives, the president concocted all kinds of lies. The purpose of getting the doctor out was actually to change the schedule because the nurse did not like it or it was convenient, she was behind everything.   The problem was that this assembly and the accusations against Máxima made the news on the closed-circuit TV channel, which reached a good

37. Theater-therapy, with children of fishermen and drug traffickers

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Like every three months, Máxima visited the school to do an evaluation of the children's health, nutrition, and behavior. In the village, there were three schools. She concentrated on the largest, the Shirys School. After checking the children, which took three days, 12 children with serious behavior problems and some of the best students were invited, who were interested in theater therapy, which Dr.Maxima considered was the best treatment that could be interesting for children from 9 to 12 years old. Many of the school children did not have organized homes, since their parents had migrated, most of them to Spain, after an economic crisis that the country experienced in 1999, in which the money from the banks disappeared, the bankers fled, the national currency the sucre, which was replaced by the dollar. That created a wave of migration, which stopped since the new government arrived in 2008, and many of the emigrants returned due to the real estate crisis in the United States, E

36. The dramatic funeral of a drug dealer coyote

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It was another Sunday in the town of Santo Tomás, the sun was not lacking. Of the 365 days a year, a maximum of 60 rained, the remaining days were mostly clear days, except from July to September, when with the arriving whales, the sky filled with clouds, and the sea became cold. On the beach the people went out, some played beach soccer, others sat in their bathing suits on the sand, always hot at noon, a good time to talk, laugh, flirt, while the children drew figures in the sand, or with their parents, they walked to San Medardo, playing with the waves, the dogs, or collecting shells. In certain aguajes, when the sea goes in and at the same time moves further away, the width of the beach could be up to a hundred meters, so the churos and small red crabs were everywhere. This happiness of nature and people was like a tribute to the day when the fishermen did not go fishing until the night, when they once again embarked to jump the waves with their boats and canoes, heading towards an

35. The LGBT drug lords

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In the house next to the dispensary of the Peasant Health Network of Santo Tomás, a young man came to live who after a few days became flesh and blood. He was accompanied by his mother who went to look for the doctor when he was complicated. "How do you feel?" The doctor asked that boy who was dying in front of her eyes. "I have AIDS," she replied with her muffled voice. - How old are you? -  Twenty-two. -What is your name? - Robert "I'm going to take his blood pressure," said Dr. Máxima, just as a group of transvestites arrived. - How are you? One of them asked. "I still don't know," replied the boy, who was very happy to see them. The doctor continued with her medical examination, interspersed with questions to the patient. -I think he's very delicate. You have to compensate for the dehydration caused by his diarrhea. At the dispensary, the nurse Berta refused to give him the vitamin serum, for fear of contracting the disease. - No

34. El Patucho and the narco-youths

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AIDS had become a common problem in Santo Tomás. People were not very careful when they had sex, because they usually had sex under the influence of alcohol or drugs. For young people, the most common drug was H, very cheap, which has the peculiarity of smelling like burning paint. It is made with remains of coca, marijuana, heroin, and they even put rat poison on it The situation of the town became complicated, to the extent that the young people could not find work when they finished school and lived in that state, which today is known as ninis, those who neither study nor work. Crime, drug use, and emigration were the most serious problems. Those boys who had bad behavior were the ones who emigrated because they began to experience the rejection of their own relatives, normally they went to Quito but mainly to Guayaquil or Santo Domingo.  In those places, they lived an anonymous life of unknown street criminals. On vacation, they returned to Santo Tomás, where they bought the things

33.The narco-brothel

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Máxima listened with amazement to the story told among the prostitutes of the new brothel, while having tasty rice with shell and shrimp in the dining room, one block from the dispensary. Those women were a solidarity club, who referred one to other peculiarities of the country's brothels since some came from mining areas where gold was extracted, others from provinces where a large number of trucks circulated, others went from party to party in the numerous cantons of the country, their life was that of nomads, who disappeared for a few days from their home and returned to their homes, with gifts and money. - There you see! - said one of them, who was a slender black woman to another who was white from the south. - You have to be careful is with bellicose men. Around here they abound and when they are with drinks, they make fights, at that moment run, hide, do not think about taking sides or getting in, because usually, the fights are for one of the girls. - How is work elsewhere?

32. The crazy end of the fishermen's festival

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The fishermen's festival did not end that day of the Virgen del Carmen. During the following days, in each house, there was a party. One of the neighbors prolonged the party for 4 days, in which he took out his sound equipment with huge speakers on which he sat, drinking and drinking uncontrollably. The noise reached the school where the teachers could not give classes, nor the students could listen to them, and even the dispensary of Dr.Maxima, who also could not sleep with so much noise, so she went to ask her neighbor who was three blocks away to turn off the equipment and end the party. -I don't feel like it. It's clear! -They were the drunkard's words that he shouted with all his strength, while his wife accompanied him with a glass full of alcohol and the drunks of the town also accompanied him, at times. In his house, his children, who were in school uniforms, could not leave the house, because their parents threatened them and remained terrified. watching his fa

31. The festival of fishermen, drug traffickers and the Virgin of Los Milagros

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After the parade, in which the schools and the college participated with their war band, came the election of the queen. Máxima had recommended to Dr. Juan Luis, the dentist, not to be a judge in the election of the queen, because in the towns anything is a pretext for fights and fights at parties. "Doctor, you are sure that he wants to be the judge" she asked him again as he was about to sit at the jury table. -Quiet doctor, everything is under control. The parades of the candidates began, first in a ball gown, then in a fancy dress, and finally in a bathing suit. The audience sat in plastic chairs on the street, which was interrupted by the rostrum. The speakers drew attention by their volume. The bars shouted the name of the representative of the neighborhood, thinking that the more noise they made, the more points the candidate would have. In the end, the jury gave the verdict. It happened precisely what Máxima predicted, the losers were irritated and began to throw what

30.The Virgin of the Fishermen

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For Diómedes, one of the young fishermen, indebted in an engine of only 45 HP, in the fiber, nets, hooks, fuel and bait, thanks to a loan from a State Bank, which lent him that money by guaranteeing the assets of his parents, who were his guarantors, fishing every day was a miracle. -These Norths are going to ruin me. It was repeated every day that I had to go fishing between the months of December and June when the Warm Current of the Child arrives- I have to get into debt in a flying net, I have no more- he thought as he took out his spinner to catch large fish that it was about 5 km. He went to Santa Rosa to ask how much a flying net would cost him, which are nets that fish cannot see and that he lets loose adrift. They were illegal nets because they kill thousands of fish, which are dying and they, but not all of them come out the moment they are collected, they even carry a GPS, for their future location and the richest fishermen already used them together with sonars. The price w