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While her father was recovering from surgery, Máxima was invited to a coffee shop by her aunt.

Upon arriving at that cafeteria in La Mariscal de Quito, her aunt, her father's sister, showed her a huge smile of happiness, which made her think that her father's brothers were very fond of her.

"It's good that you came!" She told him very effusively.

- Hi Aunt. Yes, here I am.

The two entered the cafeteria. After informing the aunt about her father's health and what happened, the aunt changed her tone.

-Well, what I wanted you to ask your father is about the apartments, which is what we need to distribute.

-Well, from what I know, those departments you mention are now his, after a mediation agreement with the other partners who built the building.

-How? -At that moment she looked for her with her cell phone in the Property Registry and indeed it was.

- Tell your father that what he has done is wrong, that I am part of the Allied Movement of the Country, the director of Social Security is a friend, I have a close relationship with him, I will remove you from your job if you do not return those departments.

Máxima's aunt got up from the table, paid the bill, and left without saying goodbye, full of fury.

When she returned to the house where her father was recovering from the operation due to the beating, she Máxima told her.

- The aunt threatened me that they would fire me from work if you don't return the apartments.

- My brothers and mother, not only have they taken houses, the 1,000-hectare farm that my father left, the money from the banks, stocks, and even the vehicles, but the only thing that my father expressly left me, 20 years before he died, the shares of the company that built this building, they also want it.

-I hope he doesn't take me out of my job, because he told me that he was a leader of the president's party.

- Can not be. She is from the extreme right, a religious fanatic, she thinks she is the cream and cream of the city, she studied her master's degree and neoliberalism at Boston University, how is it possible that she is a leader of the party of the president who is she from the left?

- The director of Social Security is also from that rancid aristocracy, right? He has one of those bombastic surnames and he studied at the University of the rich, where the president was a professor- he looked at his father, still battered by the beating and the operation- I think the president is more lost than a louse in a wig, he has fallen into the networks of the patriarchs of the conspiracy. I assure you that they are already plotting against him.

-It would only be missing that what they say about the candidate for the president, the ex-vice president, is actually what they say, a bribe collector who hides his money in Panama or Switzerland, in tax havens. So yes... I will know that I was a fool, that politics in this country is crap, that among politicians there is no honor, that in reality the corrupt are more than the honest, not what the president says. I will see myself as a fool who almost got killed for defending a rogue, who has cheated on him for years.

-Next week are the elections, I have to go vote in El Faro. In spite of everything, I will vote for the president's candidate.

- So they have to go out on Friday to vote on Sunday. How is my granddaughter?

- I will have to change it next school year because the money is not enough to pay for this school.

When Máxima arrived in town, everyone showed their wise solidarity of the beating her father received, the news spread like wildfire.

- We will not vote for those on the right, doctor because they are people capable of anything. What they did to her father is unforgivable- they told her.

At 10 p.m. it was already known that the presidential candidate, his former vice president, had won, but that there would be a second round in April.

Upon returning to San Medardo, he found out that the North American acupuncturist doctor had stolen everything from the house of Pinche Cabrón, the Ecuadorian who lived in the USA, and he brought it, but also that he would no longer give him a job, nor would he pay him anything, even took him out of the house, he did not even give him the ticket to return to his country.

- Well Jesse, you can come to live in the apartment that I rent, I have a free room.

 -In the days after Jesse, he accompanied Máxima to Las Gaviotas and El faro, they began to use acupuncture to treat diseases such as epilepsy, Parkinson's. especially in muscle pain, which was common in farmers and fishermen who have to make great physical effort.

On one of the trips to Quito, she saw a documentary about marijuana being legalized in the United States. Upon returning, a friend of his, who had a plant in San Medardo, gave him some leaves, he gave them to one of his patients, a boy who had up to 30 epilepsy attacks a day, petit mal type, fell asleep every so often in class . That treatment was a success and he thought about its use