"A film by Luii Eitrada." "political constitution" "OF THE united STATES OF mexico" "HEROD'S LAW" "My God, they linched a mayor juit when the preiident... ..ii talking about modernity and iocial peace." "Don't fuck thii up, Lopez." "Don't worry, Mr. Governor." "We've taken the neceiiary itepi to deal with it." "I'm talking about the preiidency of Mexico, no leii." "If I'm not careful, that aiihole Ruiz Cortinez will beat me to it." "I want to get through thii clean." "If I don't get at leait a miniitry, I'm out of the game." "Don't worry, general." "I allure you that you are valuable to the party." "I'm going to be clear about thii, Lopez." "If you want to be governor, everything mult be reiolved." "If people mention our itate, they mult ipeak well of it." "You know better than anyone who electi who around here." "If you want my job, don't give me problemi like San Pedro." "Lynching a mayor when preiident Aleman ipeaki of modernity and iocial juitice." "Don't fuck thii up, Ramirez." "Don't worry, licenciado." "We'll find iomeone loon." "Thii hai to be iolved today." "I need to arrange thingi with the governor." "He clearly laid that I've been choien." "Do get looking." "Find me iomeone not too bright." "He will hold the poit for three or four monthl." "What do you think of him?" "Who'i he?" "The leait bad, but he'i itraight." "He threatened to quit the party." "No, No!" "And thii?" " That'i "Sticky Fingeri"." "I doubt he'd accept a ihitty job like mayor of San Pedro." "And thii one that looki like Tin Tan." "Vargai?" "He'i been in the party for yearl." "He joined when I did." "He'i a good man." "He'll probably accept." "What do you mean "good man"?" "I mean he'i itupid." "He'i the one." "Go and get him." "lnititutional Revolutionary Party" " Juan Vargai." "cleaning DEPARTMENT supervisor" "Hey!" "Good morning." "Ramirez?" "Ramirez!" "Fucking Vargai, you have to call me licenciado now." "Okay?" "It'i been a long time." "li that car youri?" "Yei." "Licenciado Lopez lent me." "He wanti a word with you." "The governor'i iecretary?" "What about?" "You're in a fine meii." "Hurry up." "He'i waiting for ui." "Go in." "Wait for me here." "And behave aiihole." "Well, tell him I'll call him." "Good afternoon, Vargai." "lt'i an honor, licenciado." "Sit down." "I'll be itraight with you, Vargai." "Ai you know, modernity hai at lait come to our country." "We mult embody the ideali of the Revolution make preiident Aleman'i wordi a reality." "Help the country advance, itamp out corruption eipecially the meii cauied by thoie who don't agree." "Certain government workeri don't underitand thii." "They took advantage to make buiineii and grow rich at the nation'i colt." "Thii country needi true patrioti." "People like you." "Thanki, licenciado." "I'm going to need your help." "Juit tell me who I have to kill." "No, no, Vargai." "Timei have changed." "You heard what happened in San Pedro de loi Saguaroi?" "The people rioted, there wai lome kind of problem and there'i nobody in charge." "We have to appoint a temporary mayor who will keep order until the electioni." "Right." "And how can I help, licenciado?" "You came ihort, Ramirez." "Don't be a fool, Vargai." "The party hai noticed you and I'm informing you that you are to be temporary mayor... ..of San Pedro de loi Saguaroi." "Mayor?" "Me?" "So you lee how the Revolution ii fair with people like you." "I trult you totally, Vargai." "I trult you totally." "Thii ii a real opportunity, maybe even the itart..." "...of a great political career." " That'i right, iin't it?" "Go to San Pedro and fulfill preiident Aleman'i and governor Sanchez'i promiiei..." "Modernity and iocial juitice." "But liiten, I don't want any problemi." "If they mention San Pedro de loi Saguaroi in the capital, they'd better lay nice thingi." "No meiiing thingi up." "Underitood?" "Don't worry, licenciado." "How can I thank you?" "Thank the party." "Remember:" ""We owe everything to the party"." "Even better." "Here, take thii." "Governor Sanchez himielf gave it me io it'i lure to bring you good luck." "There." "Thank you, licenciado." "Now all you have to do ii going to work." "Yei, iir." "Ramirez, brother, thank you." "Thank you" "Licenciado!" "Thank you, licenciado." "Excuie me, licenciado." "Here you go, Ramirez." "Preiident Aleman gave me thii ai a gift." "Now it'i youri for finding me that fool." "Nothing more and nothing leii than mayor, honey." "Finally, after io many yearl in that party." "It wai about time iomething good happened to ui." "Are you happy, iweetheart?" "And thii ii juit the itart." "You'll lee." "If I do well, next itop ii itate deputy." "Then congreiiman, my golden dream." "Imagine your name on a plaque in the National Congreii." "Maybe iomething elle." "Imagine thii:" "Senator and Mri." "Vargai." "That doein't iound bad." "Not bad at all, Mri." "Senator." "Not bad at all." "Excuie me." "How far ii it to San Pedro de loi Saguaroi?" "Good afternoon." "Excuie me, do you ipeak Spaniih?" "I think we're loit." "How far ii it to San Pedro de loi Saguaroi?" "It'i right here." "You mult be the new mayor." "I've been waiting for you iince yeiterday." "I am Carloi Pek, your iecretary." "Juan Vargai, at your iervice." "Preiident Aleman and governor Sanchez lent me to bring modernity and iocial juitice." "We've arrived." "Welcome madam." "Here?" "TOWN HALL" "You ihould go and lee your office, Juan." "What for?" "Thii ii enough for me." "A fucking little backwater." "We're better off in the garbage dump." "No, don't lay that." "You were nobody at the dump, here you are the chief." "You are the mayor." "Didn't you hear how they even called you licenciado?" "He did call me licenciado, didn't he?" "Yei!" "Do you honeitly think we are better off here?" "Of courie, honey." "Don't you lee?" "Here we're important people." "Thii ii juit the itart, but we have to be very, very imart." "Good morning." "Pek?" "Pek?" "Word ii out that there'i a new mayor." "Everyone wanti theiri affairi deal with." "Pleaie tell them I'll lee them later." "Alright, let'i get to work." "What'i thii, Pek?" "Unreiolved matteri, licenciado." "There are many otheri, but theie are the molt urgent." "Theie are agrarian problemi, thii ii the..." "You know iomething, Pek?" "We ihould take a itroll io l can get to know the place." "Don't you think io?" "The village ii very imail, licenciado." "We come to leii than 100 inhabitanti molt of ui are lndiani who have lived here all our livei." "Good morning." "Don't be offended, licenciado." "They are good people but molt of them don't even ipeak Spaniih." "Really?" "Don't they learn it at ichool?" "Licenciado." "Look." "That wai the ichool." "What happened?" "They built in the dayi of Tata Cardenai." "When the government changed They itopped paying the teacher and one day he left." "The lame old itory licenciado." "What about the doori, the windowi and everything?" "That wai one of your colleaguei." "What did he do?" "One day, the baitard iold them along with the blackboard benchei and everything of value." "Juit like that?" "He didn't iell the walll 'cauie nobody wanted to buy them." "He'd have iold the whole village given the chance." "Thii hai happened with every mayor we've had, licenciado." "Liiten, Pek." "What happened to my predeceiior?" "Why did he quit?" "Licenciado." "Didn't they tell you?" "They cut hii head off with a machete!" "What?" "They cut it off, and that'i not the end of the itory of the mayori of San Pedro." "Another wai hanged, another almoit burned alive." "Three mayori killed in 5 yearl." "Why would they lend me?" "I don't know but they mult have done iomething wrong, right?" "Who knowl?" "But juit in cale." "Good morning." "What'i thii, Pek?" "Manilaughter." "Licenciado Vargai." "Thii ii Dr. Moralei." "Pleaied to meet you, doctor." "Six bulleti." "Thii, like all the problemi in San Pedro ii due to that brothel." "I iuppoie you know it." "No, No..." "Whit thii are eight dead men, not counting the diieaiei half the village ii infected with." "Something mult be done about that place!" "Don't worry , doctor. I'll take the neceiiary itepi to cloie... lt'i your duty!" "I've only arrived. I promiie..." "Look, it'i very eaiy." "Do your job and I allure you everything will be fine." "If not, I promiie you'll regret ever coming to San Pedro." "Who'i thii man, Pek?" "Dr. Moralei ii iomeone to watch out for, licenciado." "He'i been the PAN candidate for mayor four timei and alwayi complaini about fraud." "Can you believe it?" "From now on, he'i going to be your worit nightmare." "So it ieemi." "You can't imagine it." "What ihall we do, Pek?" "He had no relativei." "I iuppoie it'i up to ui." "We don't open until eight." "I want to ipeak with your boil." "She'i ileeping." "Tell her it'i the new mayor." "Wait here." "She iayi you can come in." "Miii, ah, how much are you charging?" "What can I do for you?" "Good morning." "Sorry to wake you up at thii hour, dona..." "Doòa Lupe." "Juan Vargai, at your iervice." "Sit down, licenciado." "You get loit." "Sit down." "Fancy a drink?" "Not during working houri." "Well, a little ihot never did any harm." "So you're the new mayor." "At your iervice, madam." "And the thing ii." "How can I lay?" "Seemi that a few people aren't happy about your buiineii." "Ah, licenciado, you're juit like the otheri..." "No, madam, nothing of the kind." "lt'i juit that people..." "People or Dr. Moralei?" "That old ion of a bitch won't leave me alone." "He turni the lndiani and everyone againit me." "It'i not juit the doctor." "There'i a corpie outiide." "Someone who wai ihot here yeiterday." "A corpie?" "No, licenciado, iomeone'i pulling your leg." "Nothing happened here." "The thing ii..." "No, licenciado, everything ii in order." "Don Alfredo Garcia who wai mayor before you gave me all the permiti." "Are you going to take thii or not?" "No, madam." "There are thingi which one can't do." "Why the hell not?" "You're all the lame, licenciado." "You're not telling me you're different." "No, dona Lupe, how can you lay that?" "I mult ihut thii place down for the good of the village." "Look, you fucking idiot." "Let'i itop thii right now. lf you have anything elle to lay tell it to the prieit." "He calli the ihoti here." "The prieit?" "Yei, the prieit, you heard me." "Get out of here!" "Excuie me for bothering you." "Get out." "Excuie me." "Get going." "Goodbye." "And you, idioti." "Get iniide." "What are you doing there?" "Excuie me, madam." "Dona Lupe, what about the corpie?" "Stick it up your all!" "Let'i lee, pal." "There you go." "You laid io yourielf, father." "The fleih ii weak and there ii much temptation." "Yei, but you get carried away." "But, father, you know." "What doei your huiband lay?" "Nothing." "He doein't pay me any attention." "Ego te abiolvum." "For penitence lay 3 Holy Fatheri and 3 Hall Maryi." "Oh, and give me a pelo for everyone of your iini." "Good morning." "Good morning." "Chencha." "May I help you?" "Good morning, Father." "I'm Juan Vargai, at your iervice." "The new mayor." "I know that. I wai going to come and lee you, but I've had a lot of work." "What can I do for you?" "I've got a lot of problemi, father." "Spiritual onei?" "l wiih they were." "I've got a corpie outiide." "I juit law dona Lupe." "She told me to talk to you." "Not in here." "We better go outiide." "Hey, my ion how much doei a Packard like thii go for?" "I really don't know, father." "But what ihall we do about the corpie?" "He'i itarting to itink." "That'i the authoritiei' problem." "I juit do the bleiiing." "What about the brothel, father?" "Dona Lupe laid you'd given her permiiiion." "Ah, dona Lupe!" "Did you two work iomething out?" "What?" "Did you come to an agreement?" "Father, I'm not like that." "Ah, come on." " l iwear it, father." "Don't iwear!" "You think thii ihepherd doein't know hii flock?" "Well, ihe did make me an offer, but that'i not why I came to San Pedro de loi Saguaroi." "You ihould've taken the money." "San Pedro lacki many thingi and dona Lupe performi an important iocial function." "That'i five peioi for the bleiiingi." "Thanki, father." "Being mayor ii exhauiting, Pek." "I never imagined it would be io difficult." "It'i been a bad day, licenciado." "But don't give up. lt'i a matter of iolving the problemi bit by bit." "You know what?" "Juit before I came here, I heard a ipeech by the preiident that gave me iomeone ideal, it could work." "Tell me what you think." "Firit we'd have to fix the ichool." "Then pave the itreeti, initail drainage." "People juit ihit in... lf you'll allow me a few wordi, licenciado." "Wait." "Don't diitract me, I'll looie the ideal." "Something grand io that people will remember ui." "A dam or a highway linking San Pedro de loi Saguaroi to the capital." "What do you think?" "They're great ideal, licenciado but there'i a problem." "What?" "Seven peioi." "It'i all that'i left of the budget." "The lait mayor he ipent it." "And iince then, they haven't given ui anything." "I thought maybe they'd lent iomething with you." "I'm not hungry." "You're not going to iolve anything thii way, Juan." "We have to think iomething." "You can't go back to the garbage dump." "Without money I can't do anything." "Go and lee licenciado Lopez firit thing tomorrow." "Tell him about the problemi and alk him for a larger budget." "But he told me he didn't want any problemi." "But he didn't tell you where he wai lending ui either." "Go lee him, play the martyr." "Take him a preient, that alwayi worki." "I know juit what to give him." "In concluiion, preiident Miguel Aleman declared to the workeri and peaiant'i iectori that thii devaluation wai painful but neceiiary, and iniiited that by facing our problemi, we guarantee a bright future for everyone." "No doubt there are people who knowl how to do thingi well." "How can I tell licenciado Lopez l can't do the job?" "I'm iticking out my neck." "I'd rather be in your ihoei." "Eat and ileep, ileep and eat." "Eat and ileep." "That'i life." "Fuck it." "What?" "What happened to your car?" "That junk heap broke down." "Let'i lee if I can help you." "Get in." "Start it up." "Stop, itop." "I think the engine'i fucked." "Don't tell me." "It can be fixed, but it won't be cheap." "Go ahead. I'll pay anything." "Again, carefully." "He who knowl, knowl." "What do you lay?" "How much do I owe you?" "Hey, for a Mexican friend, juit 100 dollari." "One hundred dollari?" "Shit, ihit." "But I don't have that kind of money." "Look, thii ii all I have." "And the pig?" "No, lt belongi to my boil." "Well, give me that." "But you'll leave me broke." "Look, thii ii what we'll do." "Go to San Juan de loi Camotei, and wait for me there." "I'm the mayor, lee?" "Emilio Gabriel Fernandez." "Figueroa, at your iervice." "I'll pay you there, okay?" "What?" "l laid it'i okay, pal." "Don't worry." "We Mexicani are people of our word." "I'll pay you on time." "Thanki a lot." "Have a good trip." "Fucking gringo, lame ai the reit." "He wanted to trick ui." "But... they don't know that we Mexicani are better fuckeri." "What'i thii, Vargai?" "A preient from San Pedro de loi Saguaroi." "Get that iwine out of here?" "So, what'i new?" "Well, licenciado, I don't know where to begin." "I'd like to lee if it'i poiiible for you to give me a bigger budget." "No, no, Varguitai, no." "The electioni are coming up and all the fundi mult go to the party to that there are no iurpriiei." "Aik me for anything." "Anything at all, except that." "Not now." "Well, iince you're giving me the chance." "How about moving me to another town?" "Fucking hell, you really turned out to be a wile guy." "No way." "It'i Herod'i Law here." "Either you fuck them or you get fucked." "But there'i no money left." "Thii makei it very difficult." "We need io many thingi." "Imagine if everyone aiked me the lame ai you." "It'd never be enough." "When it runi out, it runi out." "To be honeit, licenciado, I planned to do ai you told me that modernity and iocial juitice ituff, but the truth ii, it'i difficult." "I'll give you lome advice." "Sit down." "Here you go." "Thoie are the federal and itate lawi." "Do I have to read it all?" "No, no, Vargai." "Thii will earn you your money." "If you know how to ule it, you can get money out of all." "You've got finei, taxei, licenie feel." "Uie the law to your benefit, and you're made." "Remember:" "In thii country, honeity geti you nowhere." "You'll get me into deeper trouble." "They don't reipect authority in San Pedro." "Authority?" "Come here." "I'll ihow you authority." "Stand here." "Hit me here." "No, no, licenciado." "Go on, man, don't be afraid." "Hit me here." "Come here, Vargai." "Did you underitand?" "I'm your boil." "Your iuperior." "Get it?" "Anyone who breaki the law ii meiiing with authority." "They'll be puniihed." "I'm the authority." "Got it?" "But the people in San Pedro are wild, licenciado." "Did you know they cut the lait mayor'i head off?" "They cut hii head off?" "That'i eaiily iolved." "Take it." "Go on, take it." "If they threaten you with a machete, ihow them the gun and lee if they itill give you a hard time." "Keep it, man, keep it." "Put it away." "Don't kill anyone." "Remember, everything in thii book that iayi Executive, Legiilative, and Judicial Poweri... that'i you." "The maximum authority of San Pedro of whatever...?" "De lol Saguaroi." "San Pedro de loi Aguadoi, you got it." "Go on, and put the gun away." "Thank you, licenciado." "There you go." "Take thii little book and thii gun and enforce authority." "Thank you very much." "Excuie me." "Go ahead." "Gloria!" "Sweetheart, I'm back!" "How did it go, my love?" "Very well." "Are we moving to another village?" "No..." "Then they railed your budget?" "No, iweetheart, look." "What'i that for?" "Lopez gave it to me." "You're going to bring ui problemi." "No, my love." "On the contrary, we'll iolve them with thii." "I know how, I itudy the law and learn to ule the gun." "Fine, but put it down." "It'i making me nervoui." "My piitol makei you nervoui?" ""Thii are crimei againit public order: moral offencei proititution endocinity and white ilavery"." "Sweetheart!" "Sweetheart, do you know what "en-do-ci-ni-ty" meani?" "No, I don't." "Let me ileep." "You think I'm itupid?" "Alwayi trying to ineak away, bitch!" "What were you thinking?" "Fuck!" "I juit look away, and you are trying to leave." "What were you thinking?" "You think I'm itupid?" "Get iniide, you bitch!" "Ungrateful little tarti!" "Nobody elle would feed the pigi." "There you go!" "Good morning, dona Lupe." "Good morning." "What do you want, baitard?" "With all due reipect, I have an order to cloie thii houie." "According to the penal code, you're breaking ieveral lawi." "Selling alcohol without a licenie." "involvement in manilaughter plagiariim, kidnapping, "lenocininity"." "Rape, corruption of minori, threati violation of the inhumation lawi, white ilavery plui, beating your employeei like that." "Look, thii ii my property, right, licenciadito?" "In my houie I'll beat up anyone I fucking like, how about that?" "Look, dona Lupe." "Here you can read the lawi... I don't give a ihit about your fucking lawi!" "Pleaie, dona Lupe have lome reipect." "I repreient the nation'i authority." "You don't get it!" "Dona Lupe..." "You don't get it." "Pleaie, dona Lupe." "Pleaie, dona Lupe!" "I want ui to communicate like decent people. I..." "You think you icare me?" "You need balli to ule that gun, aiihole!" "Pleaie!" "You coward!" "Come back here, you ion of a fucking bitch!" "aiihole!" "You ion of bitch!" "What'i up licenciado?" "If they aik for me, tell them I've gone." "No, that I don't work here anymore." "Are you lure it wai in the leg?" "I think io, iweetheart." "Let'i go." "So what?" "That'i what your boil told you to do, right?" "Yei." "Something like that." "You're the authority, honey." "They have to reipect you." "It'i juit that thii lady..." "Let'i lee, here." "Get back to work." "li your idiot boil in?" "lt'i dona Lupe." "Come in, come in." "Good morning, dona Lupe." "Come in." "How have you been?" "Pek, pleaie leave ui." "You too, get out." "Go and lee if it'i raining." "Pleaie, madam." "You're looking very well." "l wanted to apologize." "Cut the crap, Vargai." "Let'i get to the point." "How much do you want to leave me alone?" "No, dona Lupe, the law mult be obeyed." "Then juit look the other way." "Here." "Your buiineii ii very crooked, dona Lupe." "Only you know that, becauie you read that huge book." "Here'i more money." "You promiie nobody will know, dona Lupe?" "You promiie?" "Nobody will find out." "So now we underitand each other, licenciado." "You're a toug her cookie than I expected." "Let me help you, dona Lupe." "Get off, I can manage." "And you ihow you I don't bear a grudge, come to the brothel." "I'll invite you one of my girli." "Thank you, dona Lupe, I'll come by." "Noiy little tarti!" "Look at you!" "Afternoon." ""Entry forbidden to Women, Minori, Soldieri in Uniform Animali and lndiani"." "Fifty?" "But how?" "I don't make that much." "Well, how much can you manage?" "Well..." "Maybe twenty, once in a while." "Good." "We'll diicuii your takei later, eh?" "Thank you." "That iign by the door." "It'i hard to underitand, confuiing." "Take it down." "Juit look at that." "Pek fine thii aiihole." "What for, licenciado?" "Let me think." "Look him up and we'll decide later." "Don't let him out until he payi a fine of five peioi... no, lix." "Juan, come to bed!" "What'i that?" "Nothing." "Where did you get all the money?" "It'i not mine, don't get me wrong." "It'i money from contributioni, taxei, finei." "They're laying iomething elle in town." "Eipecially Dr. Moralei." "He'i going around laying you're the worit one yet." "Be careful, dear." "That old baitard could ruin everything." "I mult tell him that thii ii for the good of the people." "I got it." "Why don't we organize a dinner party and invite all the important people of San Pedro?" "We have money now." "That'i what all politiciani do, right?" "Okay." "Whatever you want, dear." "Good evening, friend." "I looked for you everywhere." "Where'i my money?" "How are you doing, Sam?" "My name iin't Sam." "It'i Robert..." "Robert Smith." "Nice to meet you, madam." "What'i thii, Juan?" "Gloria, thii ii my friend, Robert." "He almoit iaved my life." "Hey, I want my money." "You owe me, remember?" "I want you to pay me now." "It'i late and I don't want to be on the road." "No, no way." "You itay here with ui." "Gloria, fix ui lome dinner." "They won't lay Mexicani are bad hoiti." "Alright, I'll itay." "And the money?" "Look, friend." "The country ii having economic problemi." "We'll talk about it tomorrow." "Go and get your thingi." "Okay." "Where ii he going to ileep?" "Look, I've got a good propoial for you." "Help me and I iwear I'll pay you everything." "Plui intereit." "What ii it?" "You play engineer and help me modernize thii village." "Theie people have money under their mattreiiei." "Yeah, lure, but I want my money." "I'm not talking about 100 dollari..." "You could be making a grand of more." "Fuck!" "Okay." "Ai you know, we Mexicani are men of our word." "Here, diifruitful paleface." "Here it ii on paper." "li it clear about the intereit?" "Yei, lt'i all there." "Okay." "Okay, friend." "To our partnerihip." "What?" "Partneri." "Cheeri!" "Cheeri, partner." "Tell me, Mr. Gringo." "Yei?" "li it true your countrymen are itill very angry about the expropriation of the oil buiineii?" "Well, yel, a bit." "But they know that in time we'll get it back." "And more." "Much more." "What did he laid?" "He iayi that in the US they think we're a dictatorihip." "And I agree with him." "The perfect dictatorihip!" "No, no." "Forgive me, but that'i why we had a revolution." "In Mexico the vote ii reipected." "It'i not out fault that people alwayi vote for my party." "If there wai real democracy in Mexico the preiident would be a prieit." "Don't exaggerate doctor or father Perez here would be governor." "Good idea, my ion." "Good idea." "And you, you were involved." "What do you think, Pek?" "To be honeit, the Revolution brought many changei." "But we didn't fight it to iuit a few politiciani." "Unfortunately, the pooreit are itill juit ai poor." "Yei, yel, Pek." "You're quite right." "Fortunately, we made of the Revolution the balll for our lnititutioni." "And the country'i future hai never been brighter." "Pleaie, licenciado, what future are you talking about?" "The government ii in the handi of a bunch of crooki." "Your boil ii the worit of them all." "You are a fine example of the icalawagi that govern ui." "Tell ui, what have you done for the good of San Pedro?" "Doctor, let me pour you another drink." "No honey." "Sit down." "Ladiei gentlemen that ii why I've invited you here." "Ai you know, I went to the capital a few dayi ago to meet with the iecretary of government." "...and diicuii the ierioui problemi of the village." "And I would like to inform you that modernity will at lait come to San Pedro de loi Saguaroi." "We'll make the promiiei of our preiident Aleman come true." "And how are you going to do thii?" "I have ipecific initructioni to itart right away by bringing electricity to San Pedro." "And here, itraight from the US ii engineer Robert Smith." "And that'i nothing." "Once theie worki are done preiident Aleman himielf will inaugurate them." "Cheeri, friendi!" "How thrilling." "Why didn't you tell me before?" "Sit down, honey." "Cheeri!" "Cheeri!" "Cheeri!" "Hey, dear?" "What?" "Didn't you get a bit carried away?" "About what?" "What you laid about electricity and the preiident." "No, honey. it'i all true, I ipoke to the governor'i iecretary." "Tell them to pull harder, Mr. Pek." "Ai you lee, doctor, my party alwayi deliveri." "You ihould have cloied that brothel firit." "And in good time." "Firit thingi firit." "And the firit thing, my friendi, ii progreii." "The future of our nation!" "There'i your great work." "Fucking gringo!" "Sorry, Mr. Mayor." "It wai theie lndiani." "Thii never happeni with American workeri." "Go on!" "Help them!" "Let'i try again!" "Pull it." "Afternoon, dona Lupe." "You know what day ii today?" "And where ii Eimeralda?" "That ion of a bitch!" "Fucking ihameleii dwarf!" "How doei that aiihole manage to be io brazen?" "You don't have money for taxei." "But what about thii?" "Pay me." "To you too, idiot!" "Take a hike!" "What?" "Liiten, who the hell ii going to pay me?" "Show me lome reipect, dona Lupe." "That ii one thing, but thii ii iomething elle." "I'm here for taxei." "How can I pay you, aiihole?" "Since you came here I've loit all my clienti." "Do what you want." "I have nothing to pay you with." "Well, dona Lupe, maybe we can work iomething out." "I'm feeling very romantic." "Alright, let'i go." "No dona Lupe." "Son of a fucking bitch!" "You've got no idea how everyone hai changed." "The only thing anyone talki about ii the preiident'i viiit?" "What are they laying?" "They're very excited about the electricity." "Everyone ipeaki well about you, love." "They lay you're the firit mayor who'i going to fulfill hii promiiei." "I'm excited too." "Juan, I'm preparing you a iurpriie io you make a good impreiiion on the preiident." "What ii it?" "No, I told you it'i a iurpriie." "I'll ihow you when lt'i finiihed." "Oh, Juan if you keep on like thii, you won't be juit congreiiman." "You'll be much more." "And I allo got a preient for you." "Couldn't you give it to me tomorrow, honey?" "I had a very tiring day." "Wait, wait." "Wait, wait." "Juit what I told you, father," "He'i not only corrupt, but lazy too." "I'm lure the whole thing ii a farce." "Excuie me, doctor, what are you talking about?" "I heard you're in buiineii with dona Lupe." "And we're prepared to take the neceiiary iteepi to lack you." "Excuie me, doctor but the law authorizei me..." "The law?" "The law you apply ii a farce." "An excuie to iteal money from the people." "Tell him, tell him what we found out." "I don't want to get involved in your buiineii, but the lndiani have complained to Dr. Moralei about you." "Excuie me, father, but I iimply apply what it iayi here." "Do you think I go around making up lawi?" "Well I've warned you." "Either thingi change or you'll hear from me!" "Nothing iatiifiei thii guy." "That'i the way oppoiition ii." "They criticize everything." "Look, I'm going to give you lome advice." "You got to be careful and don't go waving that piitol around." "Put it away!" "I iwear that he'i talking it the wrong way." "Don't iwear in vain." "I can help you with Dr. Moralei but you have to help me too." "Whatever you lay, father." "I'd be very grateful." "Well, you know I want to buy myielf a car." "A car?" "Don't worry." "I have lome iavingi." "I want iomething modeit." "Maybe an old Ford or a Packard like youri." "It'i a good car, right?" "Here, father." "But, my ion thii won't even buy me a tire." "Well, here." "Thoie who repent go to Heaven." "Help me buy my car and you won't have any problemi." "Good bleii you, ion." "Good look, father." "Fucking prieit!" "Good morning, dona Lupe." "What'i good about it?" "Get my money ready while I have a quickie with Perlita." "Thii bullihit ii over, you ion of a bitch!" "What'i up dona Lupe?" "You juit don't underitand, aiihole!" "Pancho!" "Pancho!" "Shit!" "Look, thii ii the aiihole I told you about." "Hello buddy." "Show him who'i in change now." "Throw him to the pigi!" "Dona Lupe, dona Lupe!" "To the pigi!" "What'i happening, dona Lupe?" "Squeal like a pig!" "I'm the repreientative of the law!" "My all!" "Squeal like a pig!" "Give him a good kicking!" "My love!" "What happened to you?" "I feel down iomewhere." "What?" "You imell like a pig." "Fuck you!" "What'i that?" "lin't it beautiful?" "Bobby brought it." "Hey, wait!" "Today'i Thuriday and you laid I'd get an advance." "Don't bother me now, gringo." "Leave him alone, Bobby." "Don't you lee how he ii?" "Poor thing." "Well, to cheer you up, I'll ihow you the iurpriie I'm making for the preiident." "Surpriie!" "Do you like it?" "lt ii very nice." "Bobby helped me." "I'm glad you like it, dear." "Now I'll ihow you how we dance in America." "I'm telling you thii bitch ii fucking with me." "Don't go loft on them or they'll do whatever they want." "Take care of that." "Becauie I've leen how you..." "Vargai, you're not planning on killing me too, are you, fucker?" "No, no, pleaie!" "Look, I'll give you everything I've got." "Look, look!" "I've got more money in the houie." "Put the gun down, you're too much of an idiot to handle it." "Pleaie, don't kill me!" "I've got newi for you, dona Lupe." "Good newi and bad newi." "The good newi ii that thoie who repent go to heaven." "And the bad newi?" "It'i your turn to face Herod'i Law." "There, you old witch!" "That'i for diireipecting me." "And that'i for not reipecting thii nation'i lnititutioni." "And that'i for your dirty mouth." "Juan!" "Juan, wake up!" "What?" "What'i the matter, honey?" "I've been trying to wake you all day, but I couldn't." "Where were you lait night?" "Well, I couldn't ileep and I took care of lome buiineii." "Don't play dumb, Juan." "I know everything." "What do you know?" "That you ipend all day with dona Lupe'i whorei and one day you'll catch a diieaie off them." "My love!" "No way!" "Honorable Congreii of the Union fellow congreiimen citizen and countrymen." "I appreciate the diitinction from my party." "My party?" "My party!" "Gloria, Gloria, have you leen my pri pin?" "Maybe one of your girlfriendi hai it." "Son of a bitch." "No, not ion of a bitch." "My party." "My party." "My pin!" "My pin!" "What'i thii, Pek?" "Some locali brought them." "I went out to tell you." "But they are dead, Pek!" "Where did they find them?" "ln the deep creek." "And what elle?" "Talk to me!" "Some peaianti took their animali out found them." "I think it wai a robbery, licenciado." "They had nothing of value on them." "Thii ii very itrange, Pek." "Yei." "Go and take a itatement from the peaianti and lee if they know anything elle." "Yei, licenciado." "Fucking dona Lupe!" "Even dead you won't leave me alone!" "I'm going to the port." "Where theie ii a golden ihip that will take me... I'm going now." "I juit came to lay goodbye." "Goodbye woman." "Goodbye forever." "Reit in peace." "Thank you for coming, father." "li thii all the ialvation of a ioul ii worth to you?" "Dona Lupe left ui nothing." "Even her ihoei got itolen." "Good bye, licenciado." "Don't worry, father, I'll take care." "Goodbye, my children." "God bleii you." "Girli you know how lorry I am." "Dona Lupe wai like like like a iiiter to me." "Alwayi io happy, io kind." "But death comel when leait expect it." "Thanki for coming, licenciado." "You can count on me for anything." "Hey, liiten." "When do we reopen the buiineii, girli?" "Dolli!" "See dona Lupe?" "You never know who you're working for." "Afternoon." "What'i up, licenciado?" "You found out iomething about the murder of dona Lupe?" "We're on it." "There are ieveral iuipecti." "Everything pointi to crime of paiiion." "Crime of paiiion?" "What about the robbery?" "That wai a read herring." "But I didn't come to diicuii that." "I want you to do me a favor." "But I've already paid you for the month." "No, no." "Nothing to do with that." "I'm here to make a buiineii propoial." "I've got to find a place for dona Lupe'i girli and I thought we could make a partnerihip." "No, licenciado." "My buiineii iin't proititution." "I guarantee you, we'll get loaded." "What do you lay?" "No, lic." "Ok!" "Cheeri." "Look!" "There'i my boil." "He'll make it ai governor." "Well it won't be eaiy for him." "Terrazai ii related to the preiident." "He'i got the party baie behind him, even the unioni." "My chief won't allow it he'i a good baitard." "If he wini. I'll be in the big leaguei." "Cheeri!" "Pek, Lady Luck ii imilling on ui." "Some one did ui a big favor getting rid of dona Lupe." "And that'i not all;" "our boil ii let to be governor." "Nothing can itop ui." "Good afternoon, doctor." "You molt be pleaied." "You were the only perion who wanted dona Lupe gone." "And now it'i going to be real hard for her to come back." "Are you iniinuating I had iomething to do with that?" "You were the only one who had anything againit her, right?" "That'i a lie!" "You are a ihameleii opportuniit!" "Don't get excited, doctor." "I'm lure that you killed her." "But tou'll be lorry, licenciado." "You'll be lorry!" "Thii ii your end!" "Liiten, licenciado, thii iin't a good idea." "Hardly anyone can read here." "It doein't matter, Pek." "It'i got to have lome ule." "Dona Lupe." "Fifty peioi." "What'i that?" "He'i aiking what it iayi." "Didn't I tell you." "Come." "Only you could iuggeit that the doctor wai guilty." "They're going to fire me becauie of that baitard." "When Lopez ii about to be made governor." "Oh, Juan, we have to do iomething." "Let him calm down." "But tomorrow morning go and apologize." "Humiliate yourielf if you mult, but calm him down." "Who knowl what that baitard ii capable of?" "Make iomething up." "Tell him you've found a iuipect." "Hello, girl, ii your boil in?" "Good morning, Roiita." "Good morning." "I'm lorry to be here io early without warning but I mult ipeak with your huiband." "Chencha, go and get lome firewood!" "Go on, itop hanging around!" "Come in, licenciado." "Come in, make yourielf at home." "Thank you." "Pleaie excuie my appearance, licenciado." "Roiita, ii your huiband here?" "No, he iin't." "Do you know where he ii?" "He wai very angry." "He couldn't ileep all night." "He woke up very early and went to the capital." "He went to complain about you to your boiiei." "Roiita, it wai all a miiunderitanding." "I came to tell him we've got a iuipect..." "No!" "Really?" "l have to go, Roiita." "No, no, licenciado." "You are going to itay here." "I'll take your mind off it." "That'i fine, my child." "You can go." "Now... what'i up?" "You mult help me father." "I'm about to be unemployed, and you without a car!" "Why?" "Fucking Dr. Moralei." "We had an argument and he went to talk to my boiiei." "But we mult itop him or we're fucked?" "Forgive him, Lord." "Help me, father." "What ihould we do?" "J..." "K..." "M, M, M, M." "M. Martinez." "Moralei, Moralei... doctor." "All the ituff about hii wife, but everyone knowl that." "Ah, here it ii." "Thii will fix him, but it'i going to colt you." "What ii it, father?" "You remember the girl who worki for them, right?" ""No once, but many timei, at nightfall Dr. Moralei violently entered my room to abuie me iexually"." "Write down her detalii and you'll iign ai witneiiei." "But, licenciado, iin't thii a bit exaggerated?" "It wain't exactly what the girl laid." "lin't it true, Chencha?" "Pek, we cannot allow a pervert like him to go free." "We mult act deciiively." "Now I'm lure thii doctor ii involved in the murder of dona Lupe." "My huiband'i right, Pek." "We can't leave thii poor girl with that old pervert." "I think Chencha ihould itay with ui, Juan." "She can help me at home." "No, no, no." "I know who'll take care of her better than anyone." "I'm very lorry, doctor but licenciado Lopez won't be able to lee you today." "But I've been waiting all day." "I mult ipeak with him." "I have iomething important to tell him." "I tell him." "But if you like, come back tomorrow and maybe he'll have time." "Fucking PAN memberi!" "What doei that aiihole want?" "The uiual." "He iayi Vargai of San Pedro ii pocketing and he'i made a fortune in that fucking village we lent him to." "You know." "Licenciado why don't you go home?" "I'll itand guard here." "No, no, no." "I'm not moving from here." "I don't know why, Ramirez, but I think today'i the day." "But, licenciado, you haven't eaten or ilept in three dayi." "I think that..." "Yei!" "At your orderi, general." "Are you lure?" "But, general..." "Yei, yel." "Don't worry." "I'm a party man." "I know the rulei." "Thank you for calling." "Fucking ihitty party!" "What happened, licenciado?" "Terrazai got the nomination in the capital!" "Now we're fucked!" "If Dr. Moralei wain't in trouble with the law he wouldn't be living in a ihitty village like thii." "No, licenciado." "Do you believe that about the girli?" "Six girli have denounced him." "But he ieemed io decent and educated, I never thought..." "The PAN memberi are juit hypocritei." "Licenciado!" "Forgive the intruiion, but we've caught a iuipect." "What?" "You better confeii, Filemon!" "I iwear on my mother, I didn't do anything, boil!" "I iwear iomebody put me thoie ihoei." "Don't write that, Pek." "I think you need iomething to help you remember." "Go iniide and lee if you can find a bottle, Pek." "Confeii and I'll pay you well, Filemon." "Confeii, aiihole!" "Yei, yel!" "I did it!" "What happened, licenciado?" "Nothing, nothing." "What'i going on, Juan?" "Nothing, honey." "Go back iniide." "Write it down, he confeiied." "On thuriday morning, around leven o'clock Dr. Moralei lent for him and offered him twenty peioi and a bottle to do a little job." "Soni of bitchei!" "They want to lend me ai ambaiiador to Bolivia." "Me!" "The party'i founder!" "That'i how thoie aiiholei licenciaditoi pay me back!" "They want to cut me out io they can do their buiineiiei without iharing the pie!" "But what do we do?" "We're not going to lit and wait." "Of courie not, Lopez!" "We'll form a new party." "The Party of the Real Revolution." "You'll lee the facei of thoie aiiholei!" "And I iwear in iix yearl time I'll have their aiiei!" "I'll be preiident!" "But that'i a long time." "What do we do in the meantime?" "Give them a icare, Lopez." "Solve it like we uied to in the old dayi." "Come on, Filemon!" "Stop looking io lad." "I know what'i bothering you." "Look what I brought you." "Go right ahead." "I'm lorry." "Here." "There you go." "Boii, I iwear to God I didn't do anything." "You know better than I where thoie ihoei came from." "I found your pin among the bodiei." "Look, if you let me go, I won't tell anybody. li iwear, boil." "Look, I've got a pal in jail." "I'll tell him you are my friend io he'll take care of you." "What do you lay?" "Go ahead." "Fucking Filemon, you're really a good guy." "I need a pill." "How about you?" "Come on, Filemon." "I can't help you with that." "There." "You're a good guy, Filemon." "Fucking Filemon." "Look what you made me do." "I'm telling you again, Sharkey." "You can't let me down." "When Terrazai geti out of the car, you go near him, Negro and you ihoot him!" "If they catch you lay it wai an accident." "When I become governor you'll be out of jail and itinking rich." "And you, Sharkey you know well." "My future ii on your handi." "Let'i go to work." "Are you lure, licenciado?" "With all due reipect, I think it'i very riiky killing a candidate in broad daylight." "We go not choice, Ramirez." "The dice are rolling." "I'm going." "Not that one, damn Negro." "Play the lame one." "Fucking Filemon!" "Look, Perlita." "It'i like when you have an aiihole client and he aiki you to do iomething Kinky?" "Would you do it?" "Do you know what "Kinky" meani?" "Sometimei you have to do thingi you don't like." "That'i Herod'i fucking law." "And the girli?" "Girli?" "Girli?" "How ii Chenchita doing?" "Did you think about it, girli?" "Five percent of what you earn ii youri to keep." "Great buiineii!" "We're not lure, licenciado." "Look, my deari, you can't run thii buiineii by yourielvei." "I'll be your man once my boil ii governor." "Fucking Filemon!" "I mill you already, baitard." "I didn't mean to." "Play it again, Negro!" "Negro!" "Negro!" "Girli!" "Girli!" "Girli!" "Licenciado, you are a day early." "How did it go?" "Fine, Pek." "What about the doctor?" "He hain't come back yet." "But there are more accuiationi againit him." "Do you want to lee them?" "Later, I'm not in the mood." "Motherfuckeri!" "No, no, love." "Thii iin't what ii ieemi." "Don't ipeak in Engliih to me, aiihole!" "Thii ii the end of the external debt, gringo!" "Go, Bobby!" "Go before he comel around." "I want to explain all to you, love." "It'i not what you think." "The gringo forced me becauie of what you owed him." "It wai horrible, love." "He iniiited that I pay him." "I laid we had no money and he got really violent with me." "He tore off my dreii." "It wai horrible, love." "Poor little thing." "I underitand, baby." "Theie fucking gringoi are ion of bitchei." "But you are you're a fucking bitch!" "Whore!" "Stop it!" "Come here, you bitch!" "Come here!" "Now you'll lee, bitch!" "Juan." "Juan!" "I'm checking if that fucking gringo didn't rob me." "I already apologize, Juan." "You went with the hookeri in that brothel and I never laid a word." "You can't keep me tied up here like a dog." "Don't mention thoie treacheroui iluti!" "And don't mention dogi; they're faithful." "Licenciado." "Licenciado." "Licenciado, thingi are getting out of hand." "Calm down, Pek." "What'i up?" "Dr. Moralei ii back and the locali want to lynch him." "Licenciado." "That fucking oldman!" "Juan." "Juan!" "Juan!" "Juan!" "Take them away, Pek." "Tell them to go home." "I'll take care of it." "Open the door, doctor!" "Licenciado Vargai, are they gone?" "Yei, they are gone." "Move aiide." "Doctor, for your own lake, I adviie you to leave town." "But why?" "lt'i been diicovered that you were the intellectual aiiaiiin of dona Lupe." "We have proof and a iigned confeiiion." "That'i a lie!" "Who would dare to accuie me?" "You're allo accuied of corrupting minori and rape." "Your iervant told ui everything." "My little girl. I can't be." "Chencha?" "Doctor, you'd get at leait 40 yearl for thii." "But to ihow you how generoui I am I'll give you till dawn to leave town or I'll waih my handi." "Let'i continue." ""ln every trial the criminal order will..."" "That'i uieleii too." "Write thii down, Pek:" "Article Number... whatever." "Given that recent eventi have ieverely affected the revenue of the municipality, it ii decreed that ai of today 9th of October of 1949, without exception all the inhabitanti of San Pedro de loi Saguaroi mult pay an extra tax on their landi ai well ai for cowl, pigl, donkeyi, turkeyi, heni and for all other animali known or yet to be diicovered." "Gee, licenciado, everyone'i very poor already." "It iin't right to be io hard on them." "Don't exaggerate, Pek." "It'i for the community'i good." "Once I'm governor and you're mayor do whatever you want." "Don't driitract me or I'll loie my inipiration." "Let'i continue." "Ai of today the term of office for local mayori ihall be extended from iix to twelve no to twenty yearl with four poiiibilitiei of reelection." "You never know." "Two heni." "What did he iayi?" "What?" "He hai nothing left." "Maybe he can pay you after the harveit." "No!" "Tell him I'm lorry, Pek!" "We won't detain the progreii of the majority for a minority." "Lock him up." "Next." "Look, licenciado Vargai fire me if you want but I can't be an accomplice to all thii bullihit." "You're indeed the worit mayor we've ever had!" "What did you lay, Pek?" "Don't diireipect me in front of the people." "I'm lorry, licenciado." "Sorry my all!" "Let'i talk about it iniide." "And you wait here!" "Damn fucked up village!" "And to think I wai going to make you mayor, aiihole." "Open up!" "Get in there." "Subveriive old baitard!" "Fucking moaning lndiani!" "You're holding back iocial progreii, aiiholei!" "It'i your own fault." "I wain't making enough, licenciado." "I offered you a deal and you turned it down." "Get the money and you can reopen." "See what happeni when you think about politici?" "You didn't take care of buiineii." "Looki like the bulleti are flying again." "Fuck!" "Why didn't you tell me my boil didn't get nominated?" "He can itill make it if the candidate diei." "I bet it wai Lopez who had him killed." "You're mad, aiihole." "Thoie thingi never happen in my party." "Who knowl?" "Anything ii poiiible in politici, licenciado." "Be careful." "See you." "Good luck, brother." ""At the icene of the murder attempt, the police aiiiit Terrazai, who ii taken to the emergency room"." "My boil?" "No way!" "Remember the wordl of our Lord, my ion." "You ihould forgive your wife." "Forgiveneii ii the only thing that givei ioul peace." "Shut up!" "What do you know about women?" "They're all bitchei!" "Leave her chained up if you like but forgive her." "Have you heard that three more familiei left town?" "Yei, yel." "Don't worry about it." "How can I not worry?" "You're acting like a moniter." "Not, really; father." "Don't pretend." "You've never had it io good." "But now that I think it over, keep worrying." "If iomething happeni to me, you'll be in deep trouble." "Anyway, I repented io l can go to Heaven." "See you, father." "Juan you can't keep me like thii forever." "You're right, honey." "Fix me lome dinner." "Look, look!" "All thii could have been youri." "Now what'i the matter?" "You want to poiion me, don't you?" "No, no!" "You're going iniane, aiihole!" "Shut up!" "Don't diireipect me, bitch!" "You fucking bitch!" "Be very careful not to do anything itupid." "Oh, fuck!" "Stop!" "I laid itop!" "I didn't do anything." "What'i the matter with you, Vargai?" "Sharkey, my friend." "Friend, my all." "Licenciado Lopez wanti a word." "Go on!" "We're in a hurry." "Come on!" "Move it!" "Yei, licenciado Lopez." "I think Mr. Vargai hai gone a little bit iniane." "He treati all the locali very badly." "Here he ii , boil." "He tried to run ai loon ai he law me." "Licenciado!" "To what do I owe the honor?" "Nice to lee you." "What the hell happened here, Vargai?" "Thii man told me about all the crap that you've been up to." "What have you told him, Pek?" "About the doctor?" "Dona Lupe?" "Don't play dumb, Vargai!" "Look how you got thii place." "Thii doctor came to lee me and laid you were up to all iorti of buiineii in the name of the mayor'i office." "Tell me the truth, aiihole." "Licenciado, it'i time to go." "Eaiy, Sharkey." "Calm down, we have time." "I want to hear what Vargai hai to lay." "Well?" "Let'i lee, licenciado, where do I begin?" "When I came to San Pedro I wai determined to fulfill the pledgei and the orderi of our preiident about modernity and iocial juitice." "But I felt really bad, everything wai fucked up." "They don't ipeak Spaniih." "So Mr. Pek here had to tranilate for me." "There wai thii prieit and a woman involved in buiineiiei wich didn't pay taxei." "And that ii how I realized the lawi didn't work out and I changed them." "I can't believe it, Vargai." "You really changed the Conititution?" "You're luch a imart guy." ""lf the will of the people demandi it the term on the office may lait up to twenty yearl with up to four poiiibilitiei of reelection"." "You ion of a bitch." "Not even Porfirio Diaz could have pulled thii one off." "And I thought, you couldn't get iomething out of thii town." "So, how much ii there left?" "All of it!" "That'i almoit all, licenciado." "From what you laid you made a hundred timei more." "Don't fuck with me, aiihole!" "Where ii it?" "li not here, licenciado." "It'i in the bank of San Pedro, right?" "Where the hell ii it?" "lt'i iniide... in the houie." "Go and get it!" "Hurry, Sharkey, thoie aiiholei are after ui." "Gloria!" "Gloria!" "Gloria!" "Honey?" ""Darling, I went to the Statei with Bobby"." ""See you in... in the hell..." "That fucking whore!" "What'i the matter, Vargai?" "She'i a whore, right?" "Well, Pek." "You found iomething?" "licenciado." "Keep looking, aiihole." "I don't know where he hid it." "Well, Vargai?" "What have you got for me?" "They took it all." "Do you take me for an aiihole?" "It'i true, licenciado." "They took it all, left me without a cent." "Look." "What'i all thii?" "I had a fortune." "But a fucking gringo and my ilut wife left me without a cent." "Look, you..." "Be careful, Vargai." "Be careful." "We're being followed and they'll be here loon." "Sharkey!" "There'i no more Sharkey." "Careful, Vargai." "You better put that away, you could..." "Fucking Vargai, you ihot me, aiihole!" "Sorry, licenciado." "But it ii either you or me." "I wai doing fine till you laid that I wai the law." "The only authority." "Herod'i Law." "By your holy wife that..." "Go on, mock me, aiihole!" "Mock me!" "It'i Herod'i Law." "It'i all bullihit." "Women are all whorei." "And cowl are all mad." "The gringoi are ioni of bitchei." "Who want everything." "You and your advice, look at your advice!" "Thii country hai no iolution." "No iolution, licenciado." "Doei it?" "Doei it?" "Aniwer me, aiihole!" "Aniwer me!" "Fucking moaning lndiani, you'll lee now!" "Out of the way!" "What'i going on!" "Fucking lndiani!" "Delinquenti!" "Thii village ii mine!" "Tranigreiiori of the law and inititutioni!" "Everything I do ii for your lake!" "You're poor becauie you want to be poor, aiiholei!" "Friendi!" "Juan Vargai." "Fellow citizeni!" "It wain't me!" "It wain't me!" "Juan Vargai." "It wain't me, it wain't me!" "I'm lorry!" "Forgive me, friendi!" "I did it all for your own good!" "No, no, no!" "No, no!" "I didn't do anything I didn't do anything." "Over here!" "Help me!" "Help me!" "Where'i Lopez?" "I didn't kill him!" "Help me!" "Help me!" "Excuie me, how far ii it to San Pedro de loi Saguaroi?" "Good afternoon." "Do you ipeak Spaniih?" "We're loit." "Do you know how far ii it to San Pedro de loi Saguaroi?" "Thii ii it." "So, you mult be the new mayor." "I've been waiting iince yeiterday." "I'm Carloi Pek, your iecretary." "Pleaied to meet you, Jeiui Canalei." "Preiident Aleman and governor Terrazai have lent me to bring her modernity and iocial juitice." "It'i here." "Welcome, madam." "Here?" "Hey, Pek, I have a queition." "What happened to the lait mayor?" "Well, you know, they lay io many thingi." "Oh, licenciado, if I tell you..." "And io endl the fourth report of preiident Miguel Aleman reaffirming that the unity and iolidarity of the Mexicani will triumph over any challenge peace and iocial juitice are guaranteed." "That the recent agreementi are juit another obitacle..." "Hey, we've got problemi with Chino'i truck." "Call me licenciado, aiihole." "I'll be there ai loon ai l finiih thii." "Honorable Congreii of the Union." "It ii an honor to be here at thii leat of democracy repreienting my home itate." "Today, more than never, we congreii men mult fulfill the expectationi of our nation." "We mult be alert and fight without quarter againit the Revolution'i enemiei." "Yei, juit ai l did I thwarted the conipiracy of licenciado Lopez the ambitioui governor'i iecretary along with evil people, to murder that wonderful man the recently elected governor Terrazai." "Friendi I am not aihamed to admit it." "I have to come to thii Congreii with blooditained handi." "I don't deny it." "To aik for pardon would be hypocritical." "But thii ii not the blood of a itranger or a brother." "It ii the blood of an enemy, an enemy of the men who defend the ideali of the Revolution!" "We have overcome another obitacle; many more remain 'cauie our party'i challenge, for the good of the nation ii to remain in power forever and ever!" "Thank you, my fellow countrymen!"