A Puddle in the Garden
Machine translation from the original, not yet reviewed by the author.
Original in Spanish
The “Garden City” of Albrook has, besides flowers, its own stinking puddle. And the ARI does not know what to do with it.
The Albrook swimming pool is in terrible shape. The roofs are falling in, the floors are broken, the water is green and foul-smelling. Green and foul-smelling, like the dollars the gringo administrators saved by suspending the maintenance of a pool that was about to revert. Green and foul-smelling, like the uniforms of the gringos who want to stay on in the CMA dressed in sheep’s clothing.
Albrook covers more than 300 hectares, with almost 500 buildings, barely 2 km from the largest urban center in the country. It is any investor’s golden dream! And the ARI’s little nightmare, since it does not know how to manage it. When the people at the ARI saw the reversion of the pool coming, they gave it away to the Canal Commission, which later handed it back to them, indignant. And the toads, happy in the puddle!