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Esperanza Juarez Guerrero worked as a visiting nurse practitioner in the poorest rural areas of [[Wikipedia:Guatemala|Guatemala]], high in the mountains. On one visit to a particularly remote village, she found the inhabitants mourning over the bodies of three villagers who had visibly been beaten to death. With much questioning, she learned that the village had lately been pressured by armed agents of a large logging and mining corporation, both to give up their claims on nearby land and to supply manpower for miserable pay. The villagers added that the bodies had been found the day before by two young shepherds; the youngest, no more than ten years old, had run away from the site in terror and had not been seen since. Those villagers who could be spared were looking for him, but few could take time away from the meagre harvest. | Esperanza Juarez Guerrero worked as a visiting nurse practitioner in the poorest rural areas of [[Wikipedia:Guatemala|Guatemala]], high in the mountains. On one visit to a particularly remote village, she found the inhabitants mourning over the bodies of three villagers who had visibly been beaten to death. With much questioning, she learned that the village had lately been pressured by armed agents of a large logging and mining corporation, both to give up their claims on nearby land and to supply manpower for miserable pay. The villagers added that the bodies had been found the day before by two young shepherds; the youngest, no more than ten years old, had run away from the site in terror and had not been seen since. Those villagers who could be spared were looking for him, but few could take time away from the meagre harvest. | ||
| − | Esperanza, once her duties were discharged, decided to help look for the missing boy rather than return to the dispensary she worked with, down in the lowlands. She was literally seething with anger at the recent events, and could not bear to ignore them. She took her beaten old truck as far up on the dirt roads as she dared | + | Esperanza, once her duties were discharged, decided to help look for the missing boy rather than return to the dispensary she worked with, down in the lowlands. She was literally seething with anger at the recent events, and could not bear to ignore them. She took her beaten old truck as far up on the dirt roads as she dared. then walked to the pasture where the shepherd has kept his goats. |
Acting on a mere hunch she would later describe as an "itch" in her head, Esperanza followed signs that were too faint to be called tracks, up and up the mountains. She was carried by her anger, far past the point where she should have turned back. She had heard tales of ruins up in the mountains, tales the villagers would never share with outsiders — but Esperanza, strange as she was, shared links of Indian blood with them. She thought the boy might have decided to hide in the ruins until the corporate mercenaries were long gone. | Acting on a mere hunch she would later describe as an "itch" in her head, Esperanza followed signs that were too faint to be called tracks, up and up the mountains. She was carried by her anger, far past the point where she should have turned back. She had heard tales of ruins up in the mountains, tales the villagers would never share with outsiders — but Esperanza, strange as she was, shared links of Indian blood with them. She thought the boy might have decided to hide in the ruins until the corporate mercenaries were long gone. | ||
