38. 38. The origin of narco-politics

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, we can film the flirtation between boys and girls, races, or beach sports, such as soccer, or ... surfing.- said one of the boys.

- In the park you can film how the boys who fall behind or miss school, gather under the trees, to smoke, drink or try drugs. In a cemetery where gangs gather that even rob tourists,

- On the court, we can do the dance contest to raise funds to help our sick companion.

- In the dispensary we can film the moment when the sick girl arrives- suggested Dr. Máxima.

"I think it is better for the girl to have a traffic accident because in that it is more common because on the road vehicles pass at full speed," said another of the boys.

On the day the first movie was uploaded, the guys felt like Internet stars, and that they could become famous.

For them, it was discovered that there was another world beyond what was lived every day in the town, where the routines to survive, to learn in schools and colleges, or at the university. They became aware that the Internet, or the cell phone, was changing everything.

Once the workshop was over, some boys returned to class with a new personality, in which they felt that they could be someone different, that they were the main actors in their own lives and that each day could be the beginning of an interesting story and transcendent.

The theater allowed them to recognize what existed in the town, to recognize themselves, to feel the details of daily life, the problems that a child-like them could experience, and what options they had.

In those days there were elections for local authorities in the country, they went to film the votes, and they dared to comment on what the candidates offered, who filled all the streets of the town with their advertising. On election day, his school and college were the places where the residents went to vote. they recognized that the elections were a special moment.

"Who won?" Máxima asked the last boys who were still in the workshop as some of them stopped attending.

- The party of the president of the country won, and the surprise was that the Avancemos party - they responded - became the second political force.

That was a problem for Máxima since the leader of that party was the president of the affiliates of the Peasant Health Network, who had great animosity and even hatred for her.

- On the way to the dispensary, the doctor discovered a place where tobacco grew like weeds. That surprised her, for she knew that tobacco was the most important medicinal plant in America. Its use dates back to the times before the European conquest of America, and the curious thing is that it was known and used from Alaska to Patagonia. In North America it was a social lubricant, allowing meetings between the chiefs of indigenous tribes, which inspired the modern congress and parliaments. The indigenous people began their congresses by smoking the so-called peace pipe, which had the effect of attenuating the impulses of the participants, operating as a tranquilizer. This same effect was used by American soldiers on the battlefronts in World War II. Shamans used it to cure fright, the evil eye, or emotional disorders of their patients, it also has a strong influence on the human neuro-vegetative system. , where the nicotinic and muscarinic receptors, that is, those that respond to tobacco and those that do not, define the behavior of organs such as the heart, arteries, and veins, or the intestine.

-Maxima took one of these tobacco plants and transplanted them to the medicinal plant garden of the dispensary, where she already had other plants such as lemongrass, chilca, soursop, and

more. But returning from her annual vacation, she found him destroyed.