NARCOMAR. Chapter 51. Drug Violence in a Marine Reserve

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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 had become, since the youngest emigrated.

- Dona Rosa, you come every week, which is not a problem, the problem is that you demand medicines, especially pain relievers, that you don't take, but have them at home and then they appear in the garbage can. That is not right. Those medicines can be of use to other patients. I think I'm going to send her for tests and care in La Esperanza.

- I can go to that they do the exams to me but I am paying almost four dollars to the month so that you attend to me every time that I come here.

Having told Dona Rosa that she would not attend to her was a cause of scandal in Las Gaviotas.

She maxim that she had the obligation to complete at least 28 patients a day, in a town of less than 300 inhabitants. She found it rare to do so after the chikungunya epidemic was gone.

During the epidemic, there were more than 40 patients a day, but after that, they did not reach 20, and the dentist had 4, but in the reports, he had even more patients than the doctor, when he only had to have half. But thanks to these lies, they did not close the dispensary.

To solve the problem of the minimum daily number of patients to attend, without having to lie in the reports, the solution was to make home visits in the communities.

Curiously, in El Faro, as in Las Gaviotas, the largest number of patients were from the communities of the region.

So she organized a schedule to visit each of the towns in the parishes once a week.

Punta Gloria, was the one that more patients went to Las Gaviotas. El Faro, the largest number of patients came from El Manglar-

In the mangrove, the concheras had set up dining rooms in front of the beach, where they ate delicious rice with shell and patacones. It was the best place to eat in the entire Marine Reserve-

The Marine Reserve, where Máxima now worked, ran from Punta Gloria to El Manglar. It was the first marine reserve in South America, and it had 50,000 Ha. Between the continental territory and the marine territory.

During the months of June to September, the whales came to have their young, huge stingrays and dolphins also arrive.

 There were tourists who came to observe them, especially from El Banano.

But the most extraordinary thing were the cliffs, which were the refuge of octopuses, crabs, shells, urchins, sea cucumbers, and more marine species.

It was a place where life abounded, it was in every hollow of the rocks, which the sea flooded when the tide rose.

In El Banano, there was a small beach and a very beautiful town. in a hollow, unlike the other towns that were on slopes.

 In this place, his father and the foundation that he created developed community tourism, which now brought volunteers to an organization that was created by a former volunteer from his father's foundation, who took over the site.

Unlike Las Gaviotas, El Banano was a town where there were no youth gangs, the foundation of the former volunteer of his father's, financed the passage of the students, who had to travel to Punta Gloria, where the school.

 That was very important so that the boys did not indulge in loitering and gangs, as in Las Gaviotas.

When she arrived for her weekly visit in Punta Gloria, there was a wooden affiliate's house, very well made, but without water or hygienic services, where Maxima worked.

"This week they stopped a boat," one of the patients commented to another, while the doctor checked the patients who sat waiting for her turn.

-This week too? the other patient asked, in surprise and lowered her voice.

-They found a shipment of cocaine on the boat, but they also captured Don Jacinto.

- Don Jacinto?

-They say it was because last year some passengers on his boat died, when they embarked to go to Guatemala, they were illegal immigrants.