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

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 leave the presidency feet first, and that raised the people of Quito, who He went to the police hospital where they had him kidnapped and released him, with the help of a part of the Armed Forces, who did not betray him.

But when he went to the delivery of the houses for the victims of the earthquake, in San Miguel, to the inauguration of the XXI century school in El Faro, and was leading the peace band of the school students to a meeting in La Discord, with the national director of the Peasant Health Network, in that important canton of the province of La Esperanza, where a huge sign behind the board in the school coliseum said the honest we are more.

At that meeting he noted that the parties each weekend in the Saturday Calls, and those of the Red Campesina, had created a court of ladinos, liars, and traitors around the President of the Republic.

In his apartment, he Googled who was the new provincial director of the Peasant Health Network and the IESS. He discovered that the new director was a member of a movement that was presided over by the national director of the IESS, a graduate of the San Pancho University, of the social elite of La Mariscal, in Quito, the same wealthy neighborhood where his father was born, and of the same social class, a darling of the president who made him minister of foreign trade and other relevant positions, had turned the IESS into a den of traitors and hypocrites. The political group called themselves New Generation, they were within the Aliados País movement, which the president had created, they sponsored and sponsored the disabled vice president's candidacy for the presidency, after the president announced that he would not run for re-election.

In those days, a friend of his father's who lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States, came to San Medardo. He was an Ecuadorian ex-Vietnam combatant, who after the war became a rich construction businessman, had a hotel that broke down in the earthquake, they called him Pinche Cabrón, because he spoke and dressed like a Mexican, with luxurious leather boots and northern hat. He was accompanied by a tall, bearded gringo, long-haired, graying, who was called Jesse James, after the famous American bandit, he was a doctor who came to manage that property.

-So he's working in Las Gaviotas, I bought land there too. There I am planting some trees in Estero Plataado- said Pinche Cabrón, while he lit his tobacco, in a Spanish restaurant facing the sea, next to his hotel.

- What happened to your hotel? - Asked the doctor who happened to go to eat a pizza from an Argentine, in front and entered the restaurant to have a beer.

- I have to repair everything, the damage is not greater than in the rest of the buildings in San Medardo, but I will even have to stay until March. I introduce you to Jesse, he's a doctor too, but he doesn't speak much Spanish, he's an acupuncturist, he worked with war veterans, who are affected by the Iraq and Afghanistan war, but he's already retired and wants to live by the sea in Ecuador.

"Nice to meet you," Maxima greeted.

- I don't speak much Spanish- Jesse answered

- So I teach you Spanish and you teach me acupuncture. In agreement?.

- Spanish for acupuncture, yes, okay.

The next day, her father arrived at her apartment, she wanted to accompany her on her birthday. She couldn't come neither her mother nor her daughter because she was in exams at school.

-Hi Maxima, I brought you this gift- said her father showing a plasma TV. -Your mother bought it for you so that you find out what is happening in the world.

- But it was not necessary, I find out about everything and I communicate daily with the computer that mom gave me.

- Well it's your birthday present. Tomorrow I am going to Santa Rosa to hire a satellite or cable connection.

- I won't be able to accompany you, I have to work at El Faro, your friend from Santa Fe is here.

- Fucking bastard?