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16.The war for the land

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  Back in Boca del Rio Sucio, Pedro, the man who took her every day on his tricycle from Puerto Nuevo to Boca del Dirty, an adult, fat man, with all the features of an Afro-descendant but with lighter skin, He told him what was happening at the Finca de la Urbanización Campesina while they were crossing it. "The Peasant Organization fell apart since the band-aids of Liberation Theology were taken out," he said while they were stopped on the road by some cows, who were waiting their turn to milking and have their milk drawn by hand. -When I pass that? - Maxima asked, adjusting her hat and glasses, while a furious swarm of cattle mosquitoes attacked them. - It was around 1985, more or less. In the times of Febres Cordero, the president who persecuted the Alfaro Vive Carajo and all the communists. One day they came to the home of the health promoters when we were in a course, they put us face down on the floor, they were looking everywhere for weapons. They took us outside to in...

11. Narcosea. The tango singer

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11. The tango singer While in her office, the news reached Máxima that a tourist from Mompiche had died of hemorrhagic dengue fever. Soon the Tres Vías office was full of patients from that town who were experiencing panic. With a young dentist, who was part of the team, they went to the community to make sure what the problem was, which seemed only a rumor, maybe the foreigner had died from other causes. Upon reaching the community, they visited the hotel where the deceased was staying. Like all the places in the area there were mosquitoes, during the day the Aedes aegypti and at night the Anopheles, which she knew well, because they besieged her in the home of the health promoters in Puerto Nuevo, where she lived. Upon arrival at the hotel there were no abnormalities, they searched the town looking for how people disposed of solid waste. There was a tire deposit, with the help of the community they made a bonfire in which they burned those tires, plastic containers, and other combust...