NARCO SEA PART 2 -1

For Maxima, returning to Quito and leaving her job at Cabo San Francisco was painful. She would no longer have income, she was again unemployed as she was before 2012. The worst thing about being unemployed is that you work day and night looking for a new job, but in Ecuador, the number of doctors on the street is chilling. That is why doctors continued to study for masters and doctorates, but it was even more complicated for those who had more years of study because there were not many specialty hospitals and the health business was a mafia, as they say in Ecuador, that is, a network of friends, in which one referred his patients to another. Even the families already worked with certain doctors. Her long absence from Quito for almost 10 years made her an unknown in the capital.
Upon returning to Quito, her mother was preparing to travel to Australia to her sister's training as an environmental advisor at the University of Melbourne, thanks to a scholarship from the government of Rafael Correa that she won in 2013, when that government was at its best, thanks to a renegotiation of the external debt. to avoid paying the enormous amounts that the International Bank demanded from the governments of Ecuador and that prevented public investment by the State and the high price of oil. This allowed the government to send the 20,000 best students in Ecuador to the 100 best universities in the world, to do undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, but the new government of Lenin Moreno first thing he did, was to suspend this program and bigger the number of students in the extenders to return to the country and to pay with double the years of study their scholarships, at the same time, he brought neoliberalism back, betraying Rafael Correa, who put him in power.
The first economic measure he took was to reduce the number of public employees and government jobs, This meant fewer doctors, and fewer teachers, which was the largest number of state employees, which is why it was so difficult for him to find a new job.
But his dismissal was illegal, because Rafael Correa had guaranteed the renewal of the contracts of the doctors and teachers who were working in the area of the Pehernales Earthquake, which killed 673 people, left 12,000 injured, was an earthquake of 7.8 that affected half of the coast of Ecuador, destroying towns, cities, roads, bridges, hospitals, health centers, millennium schools, schools built since 2008. She was precisely one of the doctors in those places.
She felt betrayed by Rafael Correa and his successor Lenin Moreno, whom she and her father defended, supported, and even risked their lives for them, when her father was attacked in Same by the so-called anti-correistas, but shortly before ending her temporary contract, the Correa government fired her, completely illegally.
Maxima was able to verify that the provisional contracts during the Correa government became an axis of corruption and sexual harassment of women since the contracts were hired or renewed by accomplices of the heads of the health directorates, Social Security, the Ministry of Health or the Ministry of Education. those who gave gifts, part of their salary, to their bosses, to those who covered up for senior officials and their misdeeds, or were friends or relatives of middle officials with stable contracts, and what was worse, forced doctors or professors to provide forced sexual companionship, to the miserable who reached management positions. 
For Maxima, Correa was blind at the end of his term, he had been dumbfounded with parties, awards, decorations, and even Saturdays, where he showed his moral solvency, knowledge, and great management skills, It had become a cult that brought together henchmen, hypocrites, ladinos, ready to distribute favors and take pictures with the president.
"Where will you go today?" her mother asked, "seeing her discouraged eating breakfast, and then dressing her granddaughter for school.
- To the Ministry of Labor, I have to find out what happens with the claim I have filed for the unfair dismissal.
- I think you're being simmered. You're not going to get anything. 
- I'm afraid you're right. And you....What are you going to do?.
- I have to get a visa to go to your sister's graduation in Australia. Your sister Carmen and her husband will also go from Denmark. Your sister is afraid to return to the country, because she thinks that things here are from bad to worse

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