Narco-sea. Chapter 72. The rough paths of justice

 Máxima arrived with her father at the Santa Rosa prosecutor's office at 9 a.m. The secretary was horrified to see Dr. Umiña's disfigured face.

. What happened?

-He was attacked by two people whom we came to denounce.

- Yes of course. come this way

The secretary made them fill out a form first and then wrote the text of the complaint on the computer.

_ Well now I'm going to read what I've written.

Dr. Umiña made the most important points, such as the place, the time, the people who attacked him, the witnesses. But the secretary did not want to write about the performance of the lieutenant, nor the negligence of the prosecutor on duty that hindered the capture.

Then the secretary took them to the prosecutor, a tall man from the Sierra. showing a certain indifference and arrogance, while he listened to the testimony.

- So you say that they were eating in a restaurant on San Medado Beach, that in that place he argued with those who later attacked him, that when he went home, the people took advantage of the place and the moment to hit him.

- That's right Mr. Prosecutor.

- Well, now go to the judicial police and they will assign you an investigator who will collect the evidence.

Arriving at the judicial police, after waiting for almost an hour. - Please come back tomorrow - the guard told him.

This was repeated for three days, until they introduced him to the investigating policeman. They agreed that the next day the doctor would come pick him up to take him.

The next day, they went to the scene in the patrol car.

- Doctor, it's already lunch time. Do you invite us to eat? he asked looking at the other two policemen in the patrol car.

The doctor took them to a restaurant in Santo Tomás.

"Then doctor, surely there will be more inspections," the policeman told him.

These inspections were repeated repeatedly throughout the following year, but in the future they were with the lawyer Dr. Armenian.

Dr. Umiña went to visit Dr. Armenio. who was a famous criminal lawyer who had defended the most important drug lord of La Esperanza, whom they called El Empresario and who had managed to get him out of jail, despite the fact that he threatened the government minister, That drug dealer was also the owner of the largest brothels in La Esperanza.

- Welcome doctor- said the lawyer- I am delighted to be able to help you.

- Thank you very much - but you know that I cannot pay you.

- Don't worry, I need it to get these tenants out of my house, to whom my wife naively leased the property and took over.

- That's fine, but let's sign this agreement. You know that even to go to the toilet you need papers.

- Of course, of course- My son, who is also a lawyer and has just arrived from studying a master's degree in Spain, will take care of that.

Dr. Maxima returned, like every first Monday of each month, to the meetings of the Red de Salud Campesina del Seguro.

What a shame what happened to her father. He published what happened on the internet - one of the Cuban doctors who worked with her told her

- Doctor, I would like to speak with you in private- The director told her that he was a business engineer, with whom she did not agree, because it seemed absurd to her that a commercial engineer be put in charge of an organization of doctors, dentists and assistants of medicine. cheers. They went to his office.

-Take a seat, well first of all, I know you don't get along with the assistant, and I'm sorry for what happened to her father. Can you tell me why he was attacked?

- For an argument with people who are against the government and its presidential candidate.

- You are in favor of the president.

- That's how it is.

- Well... How could you help him?

- My father needs to be operated on for an abdominal hernia caused by the kicks he received in a scar from an operation there. You have to have exams and x-rays of the head and face to determine if there are fractures like the one that has occurred and is visible in the zygomatic process of the upper jaw.

- Of course. I get it.

- When is it your turn for fifteen days of vacation?

- In this month.

- Well then you can take vacation from tomorrow.

- Thanks

Upon returning to the clinics of Las Gaviotas and El Faro, to announce his departure for vacation, he found an atmosphere against him. The assistant at Las Gaviotas had brought together those from the Marxist-Leninist party and had published a pamphlet that discredited the doctor's work. This pamphlet was distributed in all dispensaries in the province.

Upon arriving in Quito, she accompanied her father to the exams and while they waited for the day of the operation on the abdomen, which would be January 12, Maxima went to the presidency of the Republic and denounced the Marxist-Leninist Movement, which controlled the Red Campesina de Salud demanded money from affiliates for the electoral campaign, and since a secret group had appeared within the government party.