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STORY 2 |
STORY3 |
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*Pushing his cart uphill, he remembered the February
21st of 1987
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*The street vendor said to him: “Take one
and a half candy every day until you finish the bottle and you
will cure the stress for ever. This bottle is free for you my
captain.“ |
*Tina didn't like Richard, the man that her father
-for family reasons- wanted as her future husband.
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-27th Street between 6th and 5th Avenues. Fernando
García Velez (47 years old) sells hot coffee, chocolate,
coffee with milk and different kinds of tea. All drinks
are contained in plastic thermos. |
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*He remembered the ambulance he used to drive in
the 80’s.
+Doing a big effort, he remembered as well the
terrible accident he saw in the Medellín highway. It was
a money transporting car that turned over completely.
+It was very difficult to put this car in the original
position again. Even he, as the ambulance driver, had to help
the curious people to put the car in the original position.
+ Because of this fact, he suffered a terrible
pain in his back that is affecting him now.
+Anyway, he continues pushing his candy cart.
+ Some minutes before.
+ Some more five minutes ago
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*Big Robbery at Medellín High Way :
A money transporting car of Thomas S.A co. that
was transporting 70.000 million pesos crashed, got out of the
way and turned around three times before turned over completely.
Thieves took all the money that was inside the car and poisoned
the driver. Until this moment, there are no witnesses . Nobody
knows how could this terrible accident happened and who took
out the money.
*The money transporting car driver suffered terrible
injuries in his back and has not recovered his conscience until
now.
*Two vertebras broken.
+ Some few minutes before.
+ Five minutes ago
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*Tina worked as a nurse and was fond of helping
the people.
+In an accident at Medellín Highway she
met Pablo, the driver of a money transporting car that turned
over.
+Pablo was injured seriously in this accident.
*He began to have problems with his backbone and
his breathing.
+ Some few minutes before.
+ Five minutes before
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- Accident at Medellín Highway. One money
transporting car of the THOMAS GREG AND SONS TRANSPORTADORA S.A. turned
over completely when his driver lost the control of the machine.
Number plate: GHT-909 of Santa Fe de Bogota. The accident produced
a terrible traffic jam in the western suburbs of Bogotá,
Colombia.
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*After taking all the money with them, they left
the crime scene by using a truck.
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*The witnesses of the robbery were very afraid
and took the next possibility to escape from Bogotá. Using
a truck they went to Cartagena. |
-Uncle Simon: It has been a bless of god that Richard
Escovar decided to marry with our little Tina.
-Father William: Yes my brother, that is a gorgeous
thing, the best thing that could have happened in my daughter’s
life.
-US: Now we will be teamed up to Richard’s
family and our business will go better and better.
-FW: For sure my brother, with the help of the
Escovar family, our business will grow until the
sky.
-US: The sky will be our limit!!
-FW: Yes, yes, I can’t wait to see my little
child in the church wearing a pure and white dress.
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-Faustino Cantor Ariza (left) and Luis E. Olaya
(right) are two construction workers who travel in a truck to
their work. Bogotá, Colombia. |
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Later on he remembered that in Mr. Garcia office,
inside of the candy factory, he was surprised by a strange pink
cross sign that was over a filing cabinet.
+ By opening one of the drawers he found some papers
that seemed to contain a secret code.
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-“THE PINK CROSS“ was a crime organization
founded in Bogota by some contemporary pirates.
-They started to use the “+” sign to
take an advantage of the ambulances that were in the city. Hundreds
of robberies were prepared using the ambulances as a transportation
media.
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*Tina was a good and serious person. She spent
a lot of time in honorary work for the Pink Cross - a sub-organization
of the ”Red Cross“. The aim of the Pink Cross was
to help poor people with health problems.
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- Little piece of wood painted with a red cross. This
object was found
inside a closet’s drawer in a
house of a neighborhood named
“La Soledad”. Bogotá, Colombia |
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* The money transporting car driver was poisoned
with a candy. The candy filled his stomach and his brain with
orange bubbles and made him lose the car control.
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*When he was a child his grandmother used to tell
him: "Sugar is like food for the neuronal system"
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*Warm orange bubbles flooded her heart when Pablo
recovered his sense of self and looked to her eyes.
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- Bubbles produced in a glass of water by adding
a pill of “Orange Redoxon “ (vitamin C made by Roche)
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He remembered that after one of the drawers was
opened he found some papers that seemed to contain a secret code.
+ It seemed to be an official document on the front
side.
+ But on the back side there were lots of handwritten
numbers.
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*Captain Perea found this paper on his desktop
at the police department office and immediately recognized the “Pink
Cross“ logo.
+On one side there was a contract of an ambulance
sale.
+On the other there was a list with plate numbers
of lots of ambulances.
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*One of her jobs inside the “Pink Cross“ was
to make the organization’s accountancy and to compare it
with other health organizations.
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Paper with hand writing and typed text found in
a sidewalk, very close to a lottery shop. 7th avenue with
19th street, Bogotá. |
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* They escaped to a little island located in Panama.
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*When Captain Perea arrived to the island close
to Cartagena, his stress was so hard that he started to see everything
as an unknown zone. He began to forget why he was in the island.
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*Tina and Pablo were dreaming and making plans
of going to a heavenly island, far away from her family.
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- Landscapes of Bocas del Toro in Panamá.
Pictures that were taken at dawn just when the first boat is
leaving to the continent. Approximately 6:11 AM. |
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*Meanwhile, she was weaving under the moonlight
waiting for their meeting.
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*The chief of the Pink Cross organization was known
as “Lunatic
Spider“. He used to appear in public under the full moon light
and was always weaving crime networks.
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*She felt like all her life was trapped in a big
spider web. No way to escape. |
- Spider weaving its net under the full moon. The
net was located in a little town close to Bogota, Colombia.
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He could not remember the meaning of the lights
that he had seen on Monday night.
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*Lunatic Spider met Mr. Fernandez inside
of this bus to plan the robbery of the money transporting car.
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* A sunny Sunday they had a romantic walk in Bogotá.
After it, at night, they took a bus to return to their houses.
Everything was perfect. This night they promised each other to
be together for the rest of their lives. While they swore love
forever and ever, the lights of the bus started to flicker.
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- Buseta (medium bus transport parked in the new
round point of the 19th street with 4th avenue. Bogotá,
9:13 pm, one Friday of 2003. |
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*In addition, he remembered these two guys that
were repairing a tower of light close to the candy factory. He
listened to their voices faraway, from the deep gaps of his memory: “Hey
man!, there is some hole in the roof where you might enter
to the factory“.
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*Luis and Mario were repairing this street lamp
when the money transporting car accident occurred. They
stayed up there and saw all the movements and actions of the
thief. When the thief was ready to leave the crime scene,
he started to shout and threat them:
“If you open your frog mouths I will disappear
you. Nothing has happened here. See you!“
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* Tina’s brothers were tracking all the lovers’ movements.
One of their spying methods was to monitor from the public lights.
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- Alvaro Martinez (left) and Carlos E. Chaparro
Galante (right), two electrician workers from CODENSA, are
repairing public lights in 13th street with 103rd avenue. Bogotá,
Colombia.
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*Angrily and confused, he remembered that he had
started a survey in toxic candies. Thinking more, he took into
account that the money transporting car driver injured in that
1980´s accident had been poisoned with a strange orange
substance.
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* After captain Perea finished the bottle of candies
that one street seller gave him for free, he tried to find the
same kind of sweets.
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*Tina checked the candy carts that were full of
bonbons and snacks. She wanted to find orange sweets in order
to remember the fall-in-love sensation.
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- Supermarket cart with a beach umbrella. Located
at 68th avenue, in front of CAFAM de La Floresta.
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*Afterwards, he took into account the afternoon
when
the taxi driver Pedro Gonzales drove him to the candy factory.
He remembered watching the huge building, wondering how to get in.
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One of the undercover agents spent five entire
days observing the entrance of a suspicious car shop.
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-Everyday she went to pick Pablo up in the car
repair shop where he had to work. One of the consequences of
his back injures was that he couldn't drive cars anymore.
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- Factory building located at Avenue of Americas
with 44th street. Bogotá, Colombia. |
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And then, he remembered Johnny, the hawker who
confirmed the existence of orange sweeties. Johny´s voice
sounded like an echo inside his memory:
'“...Candies to daze, candies to create hallucinations... There
is an old factory where the orange candies are made…but I
don't know exactly where it is.“
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*The captain decided to dress like a street vendor
of candies. In this way his stress was controlled and in the
middle of the multitude he was ignored.
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Julio became her favorite seller of sweets because
he was the only one who had those very small and very tasty orange
candies.
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- Antonio Rodriguez Herrera (34) has been a candy
street vendor since 1999. Now he is wearing a yellow CHARMES
suit. He owns a cart plenty of candies, tobacco and snacks. Located
at 15th Avenue with 78th street of Bogotá.
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*He considered that inside of the factory he had
to hide himself in a bathroom for some minutes. While he was
hidden, the faucet was opened and the water flowed as now the
time in his memory.
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*Being in his bathroom,
Captain Perea decided to take one of the candies
that the candy street seller gave to him at no cost. He opened
the faucet and washed his hands to be free of virus.
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In the morning of the decision day, Tina spent
a lot of time in her bathroom. She felt very uncomfortable because
of all the pressure of her father. Looking at the water - falling
and leaving - she thought about her life.
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- Toilet in a Bogota apartment built in 1970s.
3rd Floor. On SALE for $60.000.000 pesos. Tree rooms, one kitchen,
one bath, one big living room. Security and comfort. |
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*In the little Island they were tortured by a rough
guy called Charly.
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*Captain Perea´s visions while suffering
a strong headache.
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In her nightmares it appeared again and again this
situation of running through the underground mangrove swamps
and getting stuck there.
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- Branches of elder trees pictured at Bogota Savannah.
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*He had chills when he
remembered the reckless motorcycle driver who chased him during
all the following week after his visit to the candy factory.
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*One of the undercover agents sent by the Captain
was following Mr. Fernandez all the 22nd November afternoon.
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Even though uncle Simon drove as speedy as he could,
he could not catch the lovers.
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-Phototypesetting of Bogota traffic and Victor
J. Molina as a
motorcycle driver.
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*When the candy factory chief discovered the hole
in the roof, he assigned Oscar to fix it.
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Before working as an electrician, Mario had had
a job as a mason.
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Feigning to fix a roof, Uncle Simon spent long
hours watching the movements of his niece.
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- Ovidio Gutierrez (42) is fixing a roof in a house
located at 6th avenue with 27th street of Bogotá.
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* ”You promised to send 16 packages...No
I am talking from Panama... yes, yes...shut up... sixteen!!!...Password?
No, Oscar didn’t tell me anything...“
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*The witnesses contacted by phone the police officer
Eusebio Perea, one of the most famous and prestigious policemen
of the country. The Captain Perea asked everything about
the crime and said ”You will be protected“.
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The travel agent had to do several phone calls
to find two places in a flight to Providencia for the next day.
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-Phototypesetting of Gilberto Chiquillo talking
by phone and a mirror structure found in Maloka. Bogotá. |
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* He remembered that in his research he checked
all the merchants on the street.
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*Searching for candies and substances to deal with
his stress....
+The Captain couldn’t concentrate in the
investigation of the robbery because his high stress level.
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In their way to the airport they were observing
distrustfully all the people in the street because they were
very afraid that Tina’s family would try to stop them.
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- Pictures of the Bogota street vendors who are
located in different traffic lights. The population around the
traffic lights has been increasing during last years dramatically.
Because of the violence present in rural areas, many people have
moved to the capital city (forced and by pressure) and have created
different kinds of improvised commerce enterprises.
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* After a while, he remembered -tired of too many
memories- that Pedro Gonzales told him to go, “during the
night hours“, to the Chinese restaurant
“La Chinita“, where he would find a message in the food...
+As soon as he remembered the message he had found
inside the lucky cookie, his backache disappeared and his
breath recovered.
+This is what he found inside the lucky cookie
that the waitress gave to him as a dessert:
“Learn to forget is the first step in a happy
live“
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*Captain Perea went to the Chinese restaurant “La
Chinita“ to take a dinner and inside of a lucky cookie
he found a secret code:
(9504)
*This code number matched with one of the numbers
that was in the backside of the legal paper.
This coincidence gave him the clue of the relation
between
ambulances and the Pink Cross.
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*The lovers decided to go to a Chinese restaurant
to take a dinner.
+ The message they found inside the lucky cookie
Tina broke (“Go on and find the secret way“) made
them to be sure about leaving the situation of pressure.
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- Chinese food restaurant named „La Chinita“,
located at Caracas Avenue with 67th street. Bogotá.
+Pictures of oriental food. |
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*He reminded Pedro Gonzales, the fastest taxi driver
in city downtown.
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*The man who executed the 70.000 million pesos
robbery, Mr. Fernandez, used to drive a taxi cab during all labor
days. The morning of November 22nd, at 11:00, he got a
call from Lunatic Spider“ telling him to
escape from Captain Perea’s ambush.
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* After Tina’s father found the room of his
little child absolutely empty, he called uncle Simon by phone.
Immediately, uncle Simon drove to the airport to halt the escape.
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- Felix Amézquita (44) is a professional
taxi driver who has been working in Bogota during “all
his life”. He is always ready to attend the radio-telephone
taxi service. Once he receives a call, disappears in the search
of his passenger.
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* He evoked those images of his wait.... Wait wait.
I am depressed...he should come soon. I’ve got news of
Pedro Gonzales....
Compañero I’ve got news of Pedro...No
it’s not him, it’s an ant...not him...it’s
him?
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* Because his stress, Captain Perea had to stay
at home during the first period of the survey.
*For repairing his absence, he sent undercover
agents to strategic zones in the city.
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*Antonio, the son of uncle Simon, was standing
in front of Tina’s house guarding the movements of the
street walkers.
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- David Montes (35) and pedestrian citizens moving
through 27th street between 5th and 6th avenues. Bogotá. |
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* The thieves escaped in an Avianca’s
airplane, flight 7442
+ Until today it’s not clear how they were
able to take all the money with them.
+ there
+ there are rumors
+ in every rumor there is a little bit of truth
+ but we all know
+ the truth depends on, or is only arrived at,
a legitimate deduction from all the facts which are veridical
facts.
+ Facts are:
+ There were big cars and small cars all around.
+ there were busses, full of people
+ there were those men in red
+ and this captain
+ hesitating if he could enter the plane
+ receiving secret messages by a hidden small headphone
+ there were strange packages inside of the plane
+ there was this non-gallant smiling second officer
+ but the strongest evidence exists in the
theory that all the money was hidden in the food
+ the catering chief seems to be involved in all
of this
+ he died shortly after the plane lift off
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*Captain Perea decided to fly to Cartagena to see
the witnesses.
+All the stuff before he could fly
+Some problems with the airplane....
+More stress for the Captain.
+Where have I kept my candies?
+Heavens! I think I’ve left them at home...
+More stress...
+A terrible headache.
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+Inside the airplane, she was sat in a window seat
next to Pablo.
+Everything that had happened the previous weeks
had come to her mind.
+She was very afraid that even in the last minutes
before taking off, her father or her uncle might have appeared
and forced her to leave the plane.
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- El Dorado airport in Bogotá and Tocumen
airport in Ciudad de Panamá “. The Avianca´s
airplane 0727 was broken by one of the catering cars some minutes
before the departure.
- Some pictures of the pilot (Capt. Orlando Hoyos)
, the airplane crew, and some airport technicians
(Inés Cordoba, Juan J. Valbuena, Ulises Jimenez and Mauricio
Pinilla).
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*He remembered the exact moment when he got news
about the factory’s address after giving some money to
a street singer.
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*Mario’s father was a singer. He started
to provide all the clues that his son had told him by phone.
Every time Mario´s father met Captain Perea,
he played a song that facilitated the advance of the survey.
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*After Richard Escovar realized that Tina escaped
from his arms, he became so sad, lost his reason and started
to be a street singer who was always playing the same heartbroken
song.
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- Augusto A. Leguizamón (68) plays guitar
by a traffic light located at 68th Avenue with 50th street. Bogota,
Colombia. Mr. Leguizamón was born in Mapiripán
and migrated to the Capital City on 2001. He traveled from the
country to the city following his desire of peace.
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He recollected that while being inside Pedro Gonzales’ cab
he was hypnotized by the taximeter.
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* Mr. Fernandez drove his taxi cab very fast to
escape the police pursuit.
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Tina & Pablo took a taxi to the airport. Because
they asked the taxi driver to be as fast as possible, the price
was really high.
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- Taximeter of the Bogota cab driven by William
Nuñez (26).
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*He remembered inside the factory he discovered
the production manager, Mr. Garcia.
That afternoon, when Mr. Garcia left the factory,
was followed, intercepted and interviewed by him. The few words
that they exchanged sounded like a puzzling song: “Forget
all you know about the Pink Cross and you will be alive“.
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*Lunatic Spider, head of the Pink Cross, finally
was caught by Captain Perea on a pedestrian bridge.
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*Tina talked to her boss the day before his escape
and explained shortly the reasons to leave the city and her job.
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- Orlando Guerrero (56 years old) walks over a
pedestrian bridge located at El Dorado Avenue with 69th street.
Bogotá. |
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*So he heard, like a pure murmur inside his memory,
the words that a bus driver was telling him:
Bus Driver: “Yes, yes. I know this sign...this
sign is a dangerous stuff....it is something related to “the
Pink Cross“.
HE: “The Pink Cross?“
BD: “Yes, yes. A criminal organization.“
HE: “Crime? I was supposing it was something
related to the Red Cross, a human organization“
BD: “So, you are too wrong...Things are not
what they seem....This is the Pink Cross...the + pink....the
more pink...so cute, so soft, so terrible....“
HE: “Ohhh“
BD: “Be careful, since you get in Pink Cross´ eyes...you
are very close to death....“
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* The driver of the bus in which the robbery was
planned, finally decided to talk to Captain Perea and became
a clue witness in the survey.
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*The driver operating the bus in which they traveled
that lovely Sunday, started to make lots of jokes related with
the sense of love.
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- A bus driver named Uriel Fonseca drives his machine
and collects money from the passengers.
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*She and Charly created an office of the “Pink
Cross” in Panama.
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So the Captain thought he was on vacations and
spent many hours in the pool making friends and taking sun baths.
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*In the island Tina became very happy and began
a new career as a public relation officer.
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Lotty Kaufmann and Laura Vaughan drink cocktails.
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The “Pink Cross“ was a criminal organization
founded in Bogota (1944) by a famous pharmacist named Ignacio
Escovar. In this picture one can see Mr. Escovar walking after
getting out of a streetcar.
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*Captain Perea visited the famous doctor Escovar
and asked for the stress cure. Doctor Escovar was very kind and
gave to the Captain all the indications to cure his stress.
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His father was very angry explaining all his “good“ reasons
for her marriage with Richard. While he was insisting in the
prestige and tradition of Escovar´s Family, he showed her
a picture of Richard’s grandfather.
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- Postcard sold in Bogota downtown by the
informal vendors that are located along 7th Avenue sidewalks.
The postcard tittle is “El Tranvía (1948)“. |
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*16 packages containing orange candies were sent
to the Pink Cross office in Panamá.
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*Mr. Fernandez put all the money in wooden crates
that he hid in the Pink Cross office.
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Inside 16 packages that Tina borrowed from the
Pink Cross office, traveled all their clothes and furniture.
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Mr. Meier, Mr. Gomez and 16 container boxes.
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*He remembered when he got out of the candy factory
trough the back door he bumped with a dog that started to talk
to him. With unbelief, he considered the dog conversation:
THE DOG: “Stop!!! Wait, wait!!! Good man,
now you have discovered everything related to the factory and
the process of making orange candies. It’s time to take
a rest...Don’t you think so?...If you are clever enough
you would stop your survey right now...Just relax, go to your
home and take a nap...If you do so, everything you saw will be
erased from your memory“.
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*A guardian dog started to bark when the captain
and his agents arrived to the Pink Cross office.
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Pablo used to complain a lot about Tina’s
family. A dog that was sat close to the car repair shop listened
calmly to all his worries.
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- Max (4 years old) is an elegant street dog. He
is taking a rest at the shore of a railroad in Bogotá.
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*Suddenly, many images of that room inside the
factory came to his head. Bottles, pots, pipettes…he remembered
himself watching carefully each bottle and taking notes of the
labels. All he found had the label “Escovar“ |
* Before finding those orange and healthy candies,
Captain Perea took different kinds of medicines to cure his stress.
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While Tina was assorting the medicines for the
poor people, she thought about her situation and future with
Pablo.
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- Old medicines that where found in a house located
in La Candelaria, downtown of Bogotá. This house was a
famous drugstore in the XIX century.
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*Furthermore, he considered, clearly, the gorgeous
parking in where he was parking his ambulance. He never forgot
the happy times as an ambulance driver.
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* Captain Perea went to the address that appeared
in the contract of ambulance-sale and found some important clues
that helped him to localize the Pink Cross office.
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The Pink Cross’ parking was the safest place
where Tina & Pablo could meet.
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-Ambulances found in Bogotá streets and
a hospital parking.
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He remembered his old friend Octavio who didn´t
want to help him in the orange-candy survey.
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Special agent Zuluaga was very careful carrying
the official papers inside of his leather briefcase.
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Pablo´s brother was the only person in town
that knew the exact place where the lovers went.
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* Gabriel C. Rodríguez (37): office worker
waiting for a bus. Carrera 13 with 49th street. Chapinero, Bogota,
Colombia.
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Eventually, his brain was emptied of all the orange
stuff.
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When the captain registered the Pink Cross office
he found it completely empty.
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When he realized that his daughter had left for
ever, a big void spread in his heart.
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Modern building found in Chapinero. Bogota, Colombia.
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His memories were moving inside a random pattern
for a while.
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The captain moved his counters carefully and smarty.
Every movement was strategic and forceful.
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Tina´s father taught to Ricardo Escovar
different flirting techniques that he used to practice in his
youth.
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Color cubes over a chess desk.
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