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Narco-mar. Chapter 68. The uncomfortable seine before the elections

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  When Máxima returned from her work at the El Faro dispensary, her father received her with television connected by satellite. - Where did they put the antenna? -Up on the terrace, let's see it They went up to the terrace from where they had a nice view of San Medardo. -I found my friend Pinche Cabrón on the beach, and Jesse, his friend, invited us to dinner at a restaurant, which is next to the house that they say belonged to the drug trafficker Patricio Escobar. - Which house? - The white house with a blue Mediterranean-style dome, which is on the beach north of the exit to the beach. -How do you know what happened to Patricio Escobar? - Some Colombians who arrived on a bus on a tour from Bogotá told me, and it was, among other things, to get to know that house, which was the most innovative thing about the tour. -When did they tell you? -Today in the afternoon, we ran into them, when the technicians came to install the antenna. -I did not know it. The only thing that caught my

Narco-mar. Chapter 67. The Party of Ladinos and Traitors

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Máxima returned to her apartment in San Medardo, facing the Pacific Ocean, on that beautiful beach between mountains and palms, with the doubt that the president's party was no longer that of people like her, who joined thinking that it was a center of attraction of brave, honest, and intelligent Ecuadorians, who followed the example of the president, who showed his courage when the police attempted a coup, kidnapped him and tried to kill him on September 30, 2010. Before this president, the presidents They were fugitives from the Carondelet Palace or Government Palace in Quito. Since 1996 the three presidents elected by popular vote had escaped in a helicopter, without ending the time for which they were elected. In all cases, the protests and then the military high command was the one that put them to flight. But on September 30 it was different, the president showed his chest to the bullets, he was not daunted, he challenged them to assassinate him, he told them that he would le

Chapter 64. Aftershocks of the earthquake

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It seemed impossible that the populations affected by the earthquake could return to normality.On San Miguel Island, people came together to protest, because they refused to leave their homes. -It is that they have always told us that we are going to disappear and totally here we are- was the cry of the stubborn German who led the protest together with the members of the ecological foundation that he had founded. "But you told me yourself that the island has sunk," Máxima said to the German friend of her father, when he was leading the protests along the main street of the island and a crowd accompanied him. -I have reviewed the history of the town and on repeated occasions there have been earthquakes, storms that have even brought holes that flood the island, but apparently it always comes back to life. - But the reports of national and foreign experts recommend that people move to the other side to avoid further damage - I know, I have read them, but I have my doubts, and I

NARCO-MAR. Chapter 63. The Earthquake and the Possessed

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The earthquake was the most frightening event that the southern coast of La Esperanza and the north of El Maní experienced. The psychological effect was more severe than the physical effect. Tall buildings were collapsing or cracking and these buildings had become the symbol of economic power. The wood and zinc hovels of the poor were less spoiled than the opulent mansions, the luxurious cement villas of the millionaires, who had them for vacationing or living in a private oceanfront paradise. More than 700 dead people were counted, but schools, colleges, hospitals, roads and businesses collapsed. The president of the country who was traveling immediately arrived at the disaster area. Unlike other earthquakes in the Pacific, it originated a few kilometers from Pedernales, but destroyed buildings along 1000 km of the coast of Ecuador. These earthquakes, frequent in the South American Pacific, have to do with the collision of the tectonic plates, in which the Pacific plate and the South