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NARCOMAR. Chapter 56. The Lighthouse Party

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The loudest moment in the festival in the town of El Faro was the match between two women's teams, which, unlike the men's teams, were inclusive teams, because they played from teenagers to young grandmothers, who competed with their daughters. , many of whom already had children, as teenage pregnancy was almost normal. In the stands, under the awnings or around the court, the families of the players were the fans and supported them with whistles, metal pots or plastic jars. that served as drums, there were shouts, flags, or people wearing the team's jersey. A wave of hysteria seemed to break out when one of the two teams was about to score a goal. Every foul or every dangerous play enraged the fans. Then came the dispute between the men's teams, which followed one another. Until the last game ended at 6 in the afternoon, when the sun was setting. with its red color behind the rock, where the old lighthouse was, which the Spaniards built in colonial times, 500 years ago

NARCOMAR. Chapter 55. Extortion by cell phone at school

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On the day of the town festival, a young girl from the school who was the favorite candidate for town queen was extorted by a classmate. -If you do not have sex with me, I will publish your intimate photos on social networks and she showed him one of her. Angela went into nervous shock so she went to the health clinic. -What's wrong with you, why are you shaking and crying? -Maxima asked the girl, who could hardly speak. How old you? I'm 16 Are you chilling? Why are you trembling? Has anyone in your house had malaria? No doctor, I'm very nervous. Why? Because a colleague whom I asked to help me fix my cell phone, stole some photos that I took naked and has published them on the Internet. Máxima, in the company of Angela, arrived at the school and told the rector what had happened. "I can't believe that is happening in this school," said the rector. -The school has a computer lab, and it has Internet, the boys handle tablets and cell phones, the town now has sa

Narcomar. Chapter 54. The Educational Revolution in a Marine Reserve

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The abandoned school in El Faro was proof for Máxima that in the villages hatreds, resentments, suspicions and outrages were more important than anything, in the villages where she worked. The government changed the educational model and replaced the single-teacher schools and the old schools, by the so-called millennium schools, which were huge buildings where children and young people would study from 5 years to 18. This new pedagogical model, which created great resistance in the indigenous communities and in many peasant communities, because the school was not only the place of study, since the liberal revolution of Eloy Alfaro, in 1895, the schools first and then the soccer fields, became the center of town. There the children met, created lifelong ties with their neighbors, women shared problems and men grouped together to do collective work, parties, or games The school organized, summoned neighbors, was a meeting place for local organizations, in short, it was the heart, brain

Narcomar. Chapter 52. The Extraordinary Cuban Doctors

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The government brought Cuban doctors who first came to help the then vice president of Ecuador, to search and rescue people with disabilities, of any origin, whether due to genetic or acquired causes, and even old age. These doctors, together with health personnel from the Ministry, the Rural Health Network, and the armed forces, did an extraordinary job, reaching all corners of the country. They helped disabled people with wheelchairs, anti-bedsores, prostheses, surgeries, etc., but also with a pension to their family members who cared for them, the disabled themselves, and with the obligation by law. to hire disabled people in public and private entities. Later, many of those Cuban doctors went to work in hospitals, where specialists were lacking. or in the countryside, where Ecuadorean doctors did not want to go. Five came to the Rural Health Network, a doctor and 4 doctors, who ended up in the most remote populations and close to the conflictive border with Colombia, where Ecuadori

Narcomar. Chapter 53. The Forgotten Theology of Liberation

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Home visits to El manglar became the most pleasant visit to his patients in his community. For Maxima El It had the best beach of all, but many plastics and other pollutants that came from the island of San Miguel were dragged towards that extensive palm where in the 80s there were many coconut palms, but now there were cabin pools. In that town, her father was remembered when he was a doctor, as he was one of the strongest communities in the Peasant Organization. In this little town the first children's center and the first first aid kit of the Peasant Organization began and at a town party, her father arrived with the residents of El Faro. As was frequent, the best friends and the worst enemies were in the neighboring town and after the mass that was at that time given by the liberation theology fathers who converted the church, which was the center of the town together with the school and the soccer field, the parents turned the religious ceremony into a moment of political, soc

NARCOMAR. Chapter 51. Drug Violence in a Marine Reserve

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Resultados de traducción Bingo had become the vice of women and children in almost every community from San Medardo to the lighthouse. In the afternoons, after washing, working in the fields, or cooking, the women gathered in the streets to play, using the pennies that no one wanted them, as tokens. It was a moment of meeting of neighbors and families, who stopped the ramblings, to concentrate on the cards and listen to the screams of the person who was reading the numbers. On the other hand, the men had Friday night and Saturday night to drink in the streets, in front of the stores that sold beers or the canteens, which turned drunks into a public spectacle. In the Misterio de Salud clinics, in the sub-centers, the patients were generally children, pregnant women, and adults, while in the Red Campesina clinics, the majority were elderly. Many of those elderly people no longer went because they were sick, but they did it to overcome the loneliness, the abandonment, in which their life

NARCO-MAR. Chapter 50. The Chikungunya

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  Máxima took Huevaso, the juvenile drug offender who now frequented the dispensary, to her office to harass her in collusion with Barbara, the assistant, who felt very hurt after the bitter argument they had the first day they saw each other. -Have a copy of this complaint that I have made against you at the Santa Rosa prosecutor's office, now I am going to cut myself with a scalpel and I will say that you attacked me. It will be your word against mine, for sure you will go to jail for a couple of years. Huevaso was surprised, he couldn't articulate a word, he read the paper several times. Then he with contained anger he told her-I don't like what you have done doctor. That was bad, very bad. -The patients are witnesses that you told me, that you would take me out of town sparked. - But that was not serious doctor. -How was it not serious? Nor was it serious to get on the roof of the station wagon showing your knife, precisely to the place where I was? - But nothing happen

NARCOMAR. Chapter 49. The Narco Murderer

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The presence of that youth bandit who arrived with a gun at the dispensary, chasing another, who had found a block of cocaine on the beach, calmly drinking water from the dispensary dispenser alarmed Dr. Máxima Barbara, the assistant tried to hide her face from her, while a mocking smile played on her lips. She wanted to see the fear in the doctor who destroyed her posters, on which she had written the new dispensary rules, which patients were to obey without protest. She also hurt him a lot in that bitter discussion, which they had last week, before all the curious people in town. -Of course, it is not a crime to drink water from that dispenser, but it is annoying that you Huevaso, come here, where my patients are, to do what you did, wanting to kill another bandit like you, for a package of cocaine. "For quite a bit of cocaine," she replied with her wicked mocking smile, while she looked sideways at the new assistant, to show her her audacity and daring, and impress her. Sh

NARCOMAR. CHAPTER 48. Corruption in the Peasant Health Network

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It did not take many days before the new director of the Peasant Health Network, who was a social worker, partner of his friend Victoriano, friend and ally of his father since the 1980s when together they organized the peasants and their organizations, who They resisted the fearsome President Ovejero, who brought the Condor Plan to Ecuador and killed some young men who took up arms to make an M19-type guerrilla in Colombia, kidnapped their father when he was the first private doctor in Santa Rosa and tortured him at the naval base from the oil terminal and arrested Victoriano, who had to eat his passport to avoid being accused of being a subversive communist. Victoriano was from the southern province and went to fight in Nicaragua when President Redondo sent Ecuadorian medical students to support the Sandinistas and liberation theology priests, who came to power in Nicaragua after overthrowing Anastasio Somoza. , the last of the Somozas, who ruled that country since 1922, for 3 generat

47. The horrible agony of a doctor

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Every morning the doctor took the opportunity to run from San Medardo to Santo Tomas, for a distance of just over three kilometers, and upon reaching Santo Tomas, she arrived at the place where the bus or station waited, which took her on Mondays, Wednesdays and Friday to Las Gaviotas and Tuesday and Thursday to El FARO. While the bus arrived, he took the opportunity to eat an onions, which allowed him to resist until 5 in the afternoon, when he returned from Las Gaviotas, where there was nowhere to eat, he could only have a soda with bread at noon to continue working. In El Faro, she always ate at the same restaurant, where the doctors from the Ministry of Health sub-center also ate. On the bus, the most pleasant thing was to travel with the dentist, who was a person over 60 years old, Fulmer García, a die-hard fan of Barcelona de Guayaquil, who lived or died when his love team won or lost. Máxima, she considered the bus that arrived to San Miguel or the station wagon that she took to