Gonzales excitedly gave Jordan Beckford his phone number, then dragged Kenny off to ask the big boss, Alexei, for men and guns...
Alvin didn't mind Gonzales using his influence at all. He really hadn't done much...
If a small favor could help some people, Alvin figured he had no reason to refuse.
Most people knew about Colombia, but few knew that Peru was now the world's biggest exporter of drugs.
The most fucked-up part was that the drugs made those inhuman dealers filthy rich, while the farmers who grew them still lived in misery.
Those criminal organizations would rather spend their money buying weapons and bribing corrupt officials than try to improve the locals' living conditions.
They could only rule the place through "terror"...
Because in the minds of those criminal groups, they knew they were doing bad things, making quick money, and had no future...
But human nature seemed to work that way. If there was an easier way to make a profit, many people were willing to risk their lives for it.
Gonzales's sister's story was probably true...
Alvin sincerely hoped there were more people like her in the world. They always tried to change their surroundings through concrete action. Alvin liked people like that...
At the same time, he had even less patience for those who read a few newspaper articles and then tried to influence others with dreamlike, empty talk...
Because in the end, the ones who got "hurt" were often not them, but the fools who blindly believed them.
They had never seen it for themselves, yet still passed judgment...
They didn't truly understand the world, yet spouted off about it...
This had become far too common in the modern age of free speech!
But the tragic part wasn't the people talking nonsense. It was