The Professor of History and Geography of Health in Ecuador
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...