HISTORIAS PARA APRENDER ESPAÑOL

NN was born in Cabo San Francisco, and her mother was the healer, the director of the children's center, and the one who led the community in the village. When the rural doctor and his wife arrived in the village, she became his assistant, since the nurse and the doctor didn't get along. That nurse thought she owned the Ministry of Health center and believed that the doctors had to do what she told them. Furthermore, she saw patients in a building located in the village and didn't want to work in the new health center, which had been built in 1980, somewhat distant from the village, at the north entrance. It had no water, electricity, sewage system, or equipment. The new doctor turned the health center into his home, as it had living quarters for the doctor, and his office was in another part of the building. The team provided electricity, first from a noisy generator, and then from the village generator, which provided electricity for 3 hours each day. The water was collec...

It was 2004 when NN, a British gentleman, brought more than 60 students between the ages of 15 and 18 to practice Spanish and live in the Ecuadorian Amazon. This was possible because NN had founded a foundation with Ecuadorian citizens and farmers to promote smart tourism in Ecuador. Smart tourism was a somewhat vague concept at the time, but it was understood as traveling to another country to learn, teach, and help others. Ecuador, then one of the cheapest countries in Latin America, had become a favorite destination for learning Spanish, along with Guatemala and Bolivia, since the students, who were also backpackers, had to stay for at least six weeks to learn Spanish to an intermediate level. The foundation created by NN offered students accommodation in Quito in an apartment for students and volunteers, with rooms with private bathrooms, a shared kitchen, dining room, and living room, an internet café, and classrooms for one-on-one learning (one teacher per student). This allowed ...

THE NATIONAL HERO NN was born in 1933 in Santa Rosa, El Oro Province, a town near the Ecuadorian-Peruvian border on the Pacific coast. In those years, the province had become the country's main gold exporter, hence its name. An English company was the primary exporter, while the Anglo-Dutch company Shell had discovered oil on the Santa Elena Peninsula, across the Gulf of Guayaquil in what was then Guayas Province, neighboring El Oro Province. In 1941, when NN was a child, the Peruvian invasion of his province and Ecuador took place. This invasion had been planned and financed by the United States, as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was interested in neutralizing Ecuador, which had become the main supplier of rubber, quinine, pyrethrum, an insecticide, scopolamine (or truth drug), tagua, and balsa wood to Hitler's Germany. The American president was interested in Peru's rubber, its main export through the Pacific. However, most of the rubber came from the Amazon rainfore...

En 1992 NN y su esposa habían concluido sus estudios sobre cómo hacer negocios en la recién creada Federación de Rusia. Él el aeropuerto de Moscú, con un gran sobrepeso que incluía vajillas rusas, cristalería ucraniana pesada, abrgos de piel.  incluso gruesos libros y diccionarios de ruso En el aeropuerto NN conoció a unos peruanos que le ayudaron a pasar el sobrepeso en el aeropuerto, pues trabajaban con la corrupta policía aduanera del aeropuerto Sheremietevo. Meses más tarde viajó con un amigo a Moscú buscando posibilidades de negocios, pues este amigo tenía una prima casada con un colombiano y ambos trabajaban para un banquero ecuatoriano, que había abierto una filial de su banco en Rusia,pero que además vendía petróleo ruso, e incluso estaba construyendo un oleoducto de Jabarovsk, a Vladivostock el extremo oriente de Rusia. Aquel amigo se regresó por París, mientras él logró contacto con unos peruanos que tenían una bodega de flores, que hasta entonces sólo vendían flores colo...

NN was only 28 years old when he was hired by the School of Environmental Sanitation at the Central University School of Medicine in 1984. President Leopoldo Febres Cordero took office in Ecuador, and he immediately introduced the country to Plan Condor, a plan devised by Henry Kissinger to eliminate so-called communist subversives in South America. NN was hired to teach the course thanks to a professor at the School of Medicine who recommended him. It was a one-year contract, and the basic textbook for students who would become health inspectors was Dr. Eduardo Estrella's book, Socioeconomic Aspects of Health in Ecuador. This would be the first year of operation of the School of Environmental Sanitation, which would also teach students how to train health promoters in rural communities in Ecuador and how to organize civil defense for the population in the event of disasters. After class, NN, with about 30 students in the classroom, would go to the Museum of the History of Medicine...

Spansk svigermor, advokat-svigersøn og mellemste barnebarn, del to I begge tilfælde kom bedstemorens anden søn, hendes yndlingsbarnebarn, hende til undsætning og bragte hende tilbage til haciendaen. Sidste gang tog han endda med sin kone og fik hende ud af det forfærdelige private plejehjem, da han så sin bedstemor deprimeret og have lyst til at dø, næsten ubevægelig, i en smal jernseng, ledsaget af en forfalden gammel kvinde, der hamrede urinen med en stok, når hun var vågen. Han kunne ikke få sin yngste søn, sin kone, ud af Conocoto-ejendommen; han byggede den med sine egne hænder, og hans mor boede der fra 1960'erne til begyndelsen af ​​1970'erne, hvor Ecuador oplevede Velasquismo-regimet og diktaturer. Indtil 1979, hvor en ny forfatning blev udarbejdet. I 1980 vandt Jaime Rodos præsidentvalget, og Ecuador begyndte en periode med stabilitet, indtil Abdalá Bucarams regering kom til magten efter den kostbare Cenepa-krig, hvor hæren besejrede den peruvianske hær for første gang...