46. The drug gang members

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 able to have a new identity card and ballot. At that time he always had problems on the buses to Quito to see his daughter and her parents, because at the road checkpoints, when he traveled every Friday night, he would make the passengers get off at the checkpoints, they would check them her carry-on luggage, they felt her over her dress, female policemen for female passengers and male police officers for men. She always asked them for documents, because Ecuador was experiencing an invasion of Colombian immigrants or many robberies in passenger buses on the highways. When she arrived at the controls, she had to get off, show her blood pressure monitor, her stethoscope and explain what happened, then wait in line with the suspects, so that finally, when the bus was already running, get on the run.

One day one of the patients told her that a neighbor of the dispensary, who lived in front of the bus parking lot, had her documents. She annoys because she was one of his patients to whom he even visited several times at her house, to comply with home visits. She went to see her angry. In front of the house of that woman named Carolina, from a two-story wooden house, thunderous music was coming out, and the perreo singer who tasted his misdeeds as a youth gang member.

-Good morning, Mrs. Carolina.

-Good morning Doctor. What brings you here?

- I come for the documents that I lost and they told me that you have them.

- Ah .. yes, doctor, I'll bring them to you.

May I ask her why she did not return to me? . Do you know how many problems this brought me? You are an infallible patient, once a week you go for your medicines, even if it is inventing diseases and you get angry if you are not treated first.

-My son found it, here he has it,

- There was also 20 dollars, which I suppose his son, I see there in that window, where that music comes from, he has used it to buy drugs, because that music is played when the gang gathers in that house to get high or to drink. l ... right?

The woman considered the sorceress witch of the town, she wrinkled her face, for she was a cover-up for the behavior of her son.

The next day when she got off the bus and walked to the Las Gaviotas dispensary, she saw the one who took her wallet playing with the marbles children, in the street, next to some steps to go down to school. The young gang members who were with him, asked the children to bet 10 cents, in this way they collected money to buy the cigars of a drug called H, which they obtained for only one dollar and smoked it on the beach. One snuff was enough to get 4 young people high.

Another day when he arrived at the dispensary after going to the nearby town of Las Brisas to check on the school children, there was a scandal in the dispensary, two gang members had entered, one with a machete and the other with a pistol. They fought because they had found a brick of cocaine on the beach, which a narco-boat chased by the coast guard, threw and reached the beach.

- What's happening here? Asked the doctor.

- You calm doctor, come out, this is a matter between us- replied El Muñeco, the black gang member, with straight hair, who had found his wallet, had a gun while another gang member, Billete, a fat man, big, mestizo, who he had the brick of cocaine and a machete, he was hiding behind Manuela, the auxiliary, whom El Muñeco was landing, passing the gun over his face looking for Billete.

Outside the dispensary the neighbors were appearing to witness what was happening.

“Right now they are leaving here and I don't want to see them again, or they will see the police and the navy if something happens here!” Dr. Máxima yelled.

"Let El Muñeco come out first," said El Billete.

The Doll scratched his hair with the tip of the gun and left.