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is the Casa Escobar going after the gay trade? looks that way…nope, just kidding…El Gato Negro having a 5q beer special if you wear a dress..the rain! why didn’t i….thanks, frank for the loan of the umbrella but i still got soaked..Lava jammed, Ocelot packed, the luscious Flor and Gina at the bar…Ximena, Margaret Hanson..ok..let’s shift gears…a lot of business owners are complaining about the coverage of last weeks multiple crimes…it happened and it was posted on a site by another business owner who was in the middle of it…hospital, cops, translating…and good for him…it happened, word got out and if not for that, all these meetings wouldn’t have happened and maybe…just maybe, there might be a positive change for Antigua…this is my home, just like yours…if i’m steppin’ in pools of blood two blocks away from my house,what do you expect? o gee..it didn’t really happen..horse shit..it happened and oddly enough, what i heard earlier tonight explains just how fickle fate was that day…it was a night of nights, unlike anything i’ve been around, Antigua has ever experienced and probably never will…to sweep this under the carpet is like ignoring your wierd uncle who’s a cross dresser(and i had one)…get over the publicity, good or bad..times are tough here, regardless if this had happened or not…you don’t have to read this nor read the postings on Face book or watch CNN…it happened, it was a one of a kind event(or series of events) and maybe the PNC will shape up, at least for a little while..in case you’re wondering, innuendo is the italian word for suppository..take one and go away..I call it like i see it…not always accurate because my sources are varied and as they say on CNN, unvetted..antigueno chisme at its best..or worst..people tell me stuff that I can’t share…and won’t..
What you’re about to read are suppositions based on 2.5 hours of a well-attended meeting featuring those jolly elfs/oafs of INGUAT, an assortment of brass hat PNC and other cops, other government officials, the Mayor, some press and four private individuals who thought that the meeting might shed some light on the ‘events of last Thursday night’….aka blood on the sidewalks…first of all, an ex-cop who shall remain nameless suggests that the evening was the result of three different ‘do-er’s (cop talk for perps) given the three different M.O’s…the guy on the moto who whipped on the pansies in the park aka La Merced, the guy with the broken beer bottle who whipped on the guatemalan on 2nd calle and then the other four attacks by the same two guys in the maroon truck…using knives…i tend to go along with that scenario..hey, just another quiet Thursday night in Antigua…
the meeting…a horseshit, no..a horse shoe shaped arrangement of tables, 24 people or so..kicked off by INGAUT, with rotating speeches by cops…’well, gee’..if only we had a plan…hey! let’s make a plan so when/if this happens again we’ll know what to do..two hours of this…what did come out and something i didn’t know of…there were only two ‘complaints’ or ‘denuncias’ filed…and until the police have one in their hands they can’t really do anything(and even then)…one must file a complaint with the police and then go to the Ministerio Publico and file another one…and then…then the wheels of justice really begin to turn….creak…so what we have here is cover your ass, it wasn’t my job and by 11:30 the excuses and explanations had been scripted and rehearsed so the the television crew from channel 9 could come in and observe the Mayor and his hard-working crew of dedicated crime fighters could be filmed ‘hard at work, solving this problem and making plans to make Antigua even safer.’ Film at 11….the one fly in my ointment…or ointment in my fly was that in highly confidential conversations outside, I’m told that the official version is total horseshit…ooh…shocking! gambling? I’m shocked (Claude Rains, Casablanca)…so, without any other ‘complaints’ their hands are tied…not as if they coulda taken statements that night in the hospital or elsewhere and been proactive crime-fighters, eh? no…not here…I’m pretty much fed up with this…as an aside, various people have complained that the whole story was made public…if it hadn’t, nothing would have happened, two days of meetings wouldn’t have happened…the US Embassy made their presence and unhappiness known..the British Embassy who set it up didn’t show..smart..they had better things to do…croquet, some tea and a cucumber sandwich..in retrospect it was a circle-jerk and a stroke job…one local spoke passionately about the events..the three or four gringos(myself included) watched the faces of the bored, playing with their mobile phones…some blame was thrown around and some uniforms will need some washing…the perps? o, those guys? well, we’re workin’ on it…justice,guatemalan style..zzzzzz..the Mayor gave a really good speech, so I’m not worried.
