The She-Devil in the Mirror by Horacio Castellanos Moya

Author:Horacio Castellanos Moya
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2012-05-07T16:00:00+00:00

5. THIRTY DAYS

I’M SO GLAD WE SAT HERE in the back, my dear, in the last row, so we can chat, even if only in a whisper, quietly. There’s been so much going on. Anyway, I don’t want to look at that priest up close. Papa’s right: all priests are twisted and corrupt, but this one has turned out to be a real scoundrel. Did you hear what he did to poor Yuca? It’s all anybody’s talking about. Yuca’s become the laughingstock of the entire world. It’s all a plot. They say it’s his political enemies. The press has turned against him, too. Luckily they haven’t mentioned anything about Olga María. I told you they were going to use the Olga María thing to try to finish Yuca off, and that’s exactly what’s happened, even if they don’t say so publicly, they’ve started accusing him of other things. They already made him resign from the leadership of the party. Terrible. The man who is far and away the best leader, and the most charismatic—everybody was supporting him. They’ve done him in—just because of that stolen car they say he bought. A Mercedes Benz this damned priest sold him and now says he doesn’t know anything about. No, my dear, I haven’t been able to talk to Yuca. He’s been too busy: he’s at the very center of a political storm—fending off the low blows, defending his reputation. What worries me is that he’ll get hooked on coke again, he’ll sink back into a cycle of depression and turn to drugs. They haven’t stopped attacking him—just look at the media. How possible is it: a high-ranking leader of the governing party buying a stolen car!? What idiots! But the way they say it, it makes people think he’s somehow involved in the stolen car racket, as if Yuca needed to be, like he isn’t rich enough already. They set a trap for him, and that no-good priest helped lure him into it. I’m sure of it! Yes, my dear, I’ll lower my voice, it’s just that I get so furious when I realize what they’re doing to that man. They’ve ruined his political career, and now they want to sink him completely. It’s not fair. But that’s not the worst of it; the worst is what people are saying in private, what people everywhere are mumbling about under their breath. Horrible: people you thought were Yuca’s friends are now out to slander him, they’re saying awful things, like he ordered Olga María’s murder because she was threatening to expose him as a drug trafficker. Can you imagine? It makes me furious. It’s one thing that the man’s an addict and another that he’s involved in drug trafficking. People say such vile things. Even to me, and they know I’m his friend, you wouldn’t believe the atrocious things they insinuate; that happened a few days ago—at the club no less. According to this person, the gringos discovered Yuca’s connection with

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