The Dead Girls by Jorge Ibargüengoitia

Author:Jorge Ibargüengoitia
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pan Macmillan UK

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Licenciado Rendón, representing the Baladro sisters, instituted the following legal actions: three consecutive suits against public officials to establish that the closing of the México Lindo was unconstitutional, unfair, and inapplicable. He lost them all because the presiding judge found that they were inapplicable. Licenciado Rendón then requested the court to set the amount of the fine his clients would have to pay to reopen the México Lindo. The court deliberated so long with respect to the fine that this story will be over before its decision is announced.

Seeing that time was going by fruitlessly, licenciado Rendón applied for a license on behalf of his clients to open another business under a different name. The application was rejected on the grounds that payment by the applicants of the fine on the México Lindo was still pending. That is to say, they could not open a new business because they had not paid the fine and they could not pay the fine because they were not told how much it was. The judge would accept no bond or deposit. Finally, licenciado Rendón prepared a letter directly to the governor signed by the Baladros. Studded with courteous formalities, it requested that he grant them permission to open a nightclub “in any city of the state your honor should see fit to designate.” This document made the slow transit from office to office until, finally, it came back to licenciado Rendón several months later with a handwritten notation in the margin: “Deny all requests from the signatories.” This appeared over the signature of the governor’s private secretary, licenciado Isidoro Sanabria—the man who danced with Ladder.

The legal steps taken by the Baladros in Plan de Abajo were more effective. In March, 1963, the restriction on the Molino Street house was lifted and it was sold to a leather-goods merchant who turned it into a workshop. Captain Bedoya was able to convince the sisters that the proceeds from this transaction should be invested in a farm.

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